All James Stockdale Quotes
- The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. Achievement
- They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. Cal
- I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders. Commanding
- I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. Character
- I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. Conversation
- I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably… Been
- The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation Arranges
- Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the… All
- Entitlement and privelege corrupt. Character
- Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment… All
- Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That… Any
- Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the… Dead
- I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would… Attention
- Great leaders gain authority by giving it away. Authority
- This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back… Big
- He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the… Air
- The worst thing that can happen is death and that's not the worst thing in the world either. Death
- I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at… Bending
- On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs… Air
- A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. Curiosity