Eric Shinseki famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.Â And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
-- Eric Shinseki

#Commitment #Leader #Arrogance
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.
-- Eric Shinseki

#Change #Irrelevance #Innovation
Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..
-- Eric Shinseki

#Leadership #Arrogance #Vacuums
More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.
-- Eric Shinseki

#Veteran #Being The Best #Employee
If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.
-- Eric Shinseki

#Irrelevance #Dislike
I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.
-- Eric Shinseki

#Iraq #Soldier #Dying
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

#Military #Men #America
I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.
-- Eric Shinseki

#Leadership #Integrity #Health
I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.
-- Eric Shinseki

#Order #Soldier #Would Be
I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.
-- Eric Shinseki

#Team #Army #Fields

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