Eric Shinseki Quotes
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If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.
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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.
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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.
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I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.
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If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.
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Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
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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.
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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.
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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. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
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More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.
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Eric Shinseki
- Born: November 28, 1942
- Occupation: Former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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