Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure…

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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've...

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've...

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody...

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody...

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work...

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work...

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised...

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised...

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it...

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it...

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around...

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around...

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have...

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have...

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or...

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or...

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when...

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when...

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human...

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human...

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision,...

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision,...