Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes - Page 3

American - Soldier Born: August 14, 1954

When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many Afghans, some ISAF coalition members, and much of the American public had lost confidence in both the trajectory of the war and our ability to correct it. Stanley A. McChrystal

Some, Correct, Afghans

I think my biggest achievement was being part of a team of outstanding, entrepreneurial military leaders and civilians who helped change the way in which America fights by transforming a global special operations task force - Task Force 714 - that I commanded. Stanley A. McChrystal

Achievement, I Think, Part

A fundamental principle that I learned in my career, and a principle that my consulting company McChrystal Group helps American civilian companies to adopt, is that winning units and organizations ensure that the time they actually spend - daily, weekly, and yearly - must hew closely to their priorities. Stanley A. McChrystal

American, Career, Principle

How Americans restore trust may be an existential question for their country, then, but it's ultimately a practical one: What U.S. society needs to answer it in the coming years aren't lamentations but practical measures, especially among the emerging generations that will define America's future. Stanley A. McChrystal

Trust, Country, Generations

A year of service has the power to bring young people together from different races, ethnicities, incomes, faiths, and political backgrounds to work on pressing problems facing U.S. society today. Stanley A. McChrystal

Young, Year, Incomes

Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust. Stanley A. McChrystal

Trust, Reminders, Cities

Public television works hard to engage young learners and build the skills needed for a jump-start on life. We need our youngest to be curious, resilient and empathetic, and prepared for the jobs of the future. Stanley A. McChrystal

Curious, Young, Works

Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career. Stanley A. McChrystal

Career, Like, Spent

In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more thinking and understanding, and it brings us together. Stanley A. McChrystal

More, Sights, I See

We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided. Stanley A. McChrystal

Strong, Different People

In an organization that is unwilling to change, find the opportunity to talk and interact with people - figure out why they don't want to change. It could be habits. It could be people's personal equities and reputations are defined by the role they're in or the process they've mastered. Stanley A. McChrystal

Role, Habits, Reputations

The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders. Stanley A. McChrystal

Making, Average People, Very

The basic DNA we've got to implant in leaders now is adaptability: not to get wedded to the solution to a particular problem, because not only the problem but the solution changes day to day. Creating people who are hardwired for that is going to be our challenge for the future. Stanley A. McChrystal

Changes, Leaders, Got

America needs a restart. It has long devoted its energies to solving its many big problems - unequal opportunity, crumbling infrastructure, lagging education, inadequate training in a changing economy, and threats to peace around the world. Stanley A. McChrystal

Education, Big, Solving

We are a nation of innovators and problem-solvers who sparked revolutions in democratic government, civil rights, communications, flight, rural electrification and technology. We are a country defined by ideals now in need of rescue. Stanley A. McChrystal

Country, Flight, Ideals

America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service. Stanley A. McChrystal

Big, Needs, Plays

We should get to the business of providing at least one million opportunities each year for young Americans to spend a service year with peers who are different from them - by race, ethnicity, income, politics and religious belief. Stanley A. McChrystal

Politics, Income, Religious

The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you're telling them is 'America Only'. Stanley A. McChrystal

Telling, Sticker, Them

How we present ourselves matters a lot, and that's every American, not just at the senior levels. Stanley A. McChrystal

How, Senior, Lot

If we want to be members of the world community, we need to think that way. Stanley A. McChrystal

World, Think, Need

If every soldier is authorized to make one mistake, then we lose the war. Stanley A. McChrystal

Mistake, Soldier, Authorized

My dad was always the soldier I wanted to be. Stanley A. McChrystal

Soldier, Always, Wanted

One of the big takeaways from Iraq was that you have to not lose confidence in what you are doing. We were able to go to the edge of the abyss without losing hope. Stanley A. McChrystal

Doing, Big, Lose

We want to make the insurgents come to us. Make them be the aggressors. What I want to do is get on the inside looking out - instead of being on the outside looking in. Stanley A. McChrystal

Want, Come, Them

Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world. Stanley A. McChrystal

World, Been, Organizational

Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information. Stanley A. McChrystal

Need, Given, Excelled

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