Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. - James Stockdale
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
- James Stockdale
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. - James Stockdale
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out. - James Stockdale
It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. - James Stockdale
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted com… - James Stockdale
Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted com…
The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either. - James Stockdale
The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.
Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it. - James Stockdale
Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
Entitlement and privelege corrupt. - James Stockdale
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
Great leaders gain authority by giving it away. - James Stockdale
Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
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