I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership -… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share
In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, stand in… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
