Eric Shinseki Quotes

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• More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.
• You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot…
• Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..
• If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.
• If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, stand in his…
• The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we…
• I am an armor officer.
• An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.
• 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…
• It's tough never being right.
• Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is…

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