Captain Quote by John F. Kelly

The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a…

— John F. Kelly

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

— Dana Perino

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

— Bernard Law Montgomery

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and…

— Attila the Hun

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as…

— Wesley Clark

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

— Peter R. Mansoor

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign…

— Peter Drucker

The military executes policy decisions.

— Jack Keane

Decisions are made by those who show up.

— Aaron Sorkin

“The appearance of precision and order are so important to military commanders because they are generally idiots who couldn’t plan a decent cocktail party,…

— Stan Goff

The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought…

— Leon Panetta

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

— Peter Drucker