Amy Walter Quotes

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

A leader should not get too far in front of his troops or he will be shot in the ass.

We have leadership—there's just no followership.

The Secret Service today is awash in managers, not leaders.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.

The secret of war lies in the communications.

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

Donald Trump is man of action.

Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

"The Donald" is not really a plans guy.

Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.