Quotes

Regardless of age or grade, soldiers should be treated as mature individuals. They are men engaged in an honorable profession and deserve to be treated as such.

Rank is given you to enable you to better serve those above and below you. It is not given for you to practice your idiosyncrasies.

You must be able to underwrite the honest mistakes of your subordinates if you wish to develop their initiative and experience.

When things go wrong in your command, start searching for the reason in increasingly larger concentric circles around your own desk.

You owe it to your men to require standards which are for their benefit even though they may not be popular at the moment.

To create great armies is one thing; to lead them… is another.

If you cry ‘Forward’, you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don’t you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, the will go in directions precisely …Read More

An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer.

War is an art, to attain perfection in which much time and experience, particularly for the officers, are necessary.

Battles are won by the infantry, the armor, the artillery, and air teams, by soldiers living in the rains and huddling in the snow. But wars are won by the great strength of a nation–the soldier and the civilian working …Read More

A leader must possess imagination.

I would caution you always to remember that an essential qualification of a good leader is the ability to recognize, select, and train junior leaders.