Stanley A. McChrystal quotes

Stanley A. McChrystal quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.”
-- Stanley A. McChrystal

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

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“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.”
-- Stanley A. McChrystal

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

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“I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.”
-- Stanley A. McChrystal

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

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“Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.”
“Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
“The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
“We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.”
“The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.”
“When all else fails, complicate matters”
“Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.”
“You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.”
“Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.”

Source : "USA Today founder Al Neuharth dies in Florida at 89". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2013.
“I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous”

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