Eric Shinseki quotes

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 allies, feared by our adversaries. (Eric Shinseki)
If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more. View quote
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I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 lead without it. View quote
Eric Shinseki
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 - not to punish the individual. View quote
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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 designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now. View quote
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I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans' service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions, where I speak to the veterans membership. I do travel. I've been to all 50 states. When I do, I engage veterans locally. So I get direct feedback from those veterans. View quote
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It's important in any organization that if visions have any reality at all, it's because the organization believes that the vision is right and that they share in it. Otherwise, it becomes the good idea of one person, and that even more importantly contributes to the sense that it will not survive the departure of that individual. View quote
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