"I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust."

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Source : "Listen, learn ... then lead". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

Stanley A. McChrystal

#Leadership Quotes #Believe Quotes #Willing Quotes

“Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.”
“The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.”
“Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.”
“You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.”
“How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?”
“God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2010). “Harvest”, p.230, Simon and Schuster
“I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.”
“If they're going to get policewomen to jump me... I wish they'd get sexier ones.”

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