Ender-quintet Quote by Orson Scott Card

“-commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you.”

— Orsen Card

“We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-" "He isn't mine. My man has eyes that change color…

— Maria V. Snyder

“I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander—things can be ordered and started, but actual execution at the front has to…

— Rick Atkinson

“Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?”

— Orson Scott Card

“Myself, and the majority of officers in a position of command, will not execute unconditionally the orders of the Head of State.”

— Alistair Horne

“You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself or his brother…

— Steven Pressfield

“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

“A general may succeed for some time in persuading his superiors that he is a good commander: he will never”

— Field Marshal Archibald wavell

“You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“This is how command passes from a weak officer to a stronger. No rank alters; no papers are filed. Without a word, every man…

— Steven Pressfield

“The guys who give the orders never get what’s coming to them. They’re the Lords in their towers,”

— Hugh Howey

“Orders are given to accomplish a mission, not to be followed to the letter.”

— Robert Babcock