"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

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

Stanley A. McChrystal

#Leader Quotes #Failing Quotes

“I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.”
“The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.”
“Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.”
“I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.”
“True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.”
“The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.”
“I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
“But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?”

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