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Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

American - Soldier | August 14, 1954 -

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

Business Service Politics Year Young

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

Stanley A. McChrystal

Present American Matters Senior Just

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

Stanley A. McChrystal

Community World Think Want Way Need

My dad was always the soldier I wanted to be.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Always Soldier Wanted Dad

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

Confidence Hope Losing Doing 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

Looking Want Inside Outside Out Us

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

Intelligence Organization Impossible

Industrial technologies that allowed for increased mechanization in 19th-century armed forces also spurred Frederick Winslow Taylor to develop his 'Scientific Management' doctrine in Philadelphia steel mills.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Management Philadelphia Steel Forces

What I really want are students who want to partner with other people, to be part of an organization and to influence people so that they can accomplish things that the organization would not have accomplished otherwise.

Stanley A. McChrystal

People Organization Influence Partner

What I'm trying to do is teach people how to actually get individuals in organizations to do the kinds of things to make a difference. It starts with not just studying the mechanics but really understanding how people operate.

Stanley A. McChrystal

People Make A Difference Understanding

If you sit down with British officers or British senior NCOs, they understand the sweep of history. They know the history of British forces not just in Afghanistan but the history of British successful counter-insurgencies - Northern Ireland, Malaysia.

Stanley A. McChrystal

History You Down Know Understand

I'm a believer in the Afghan people, so I support an increase in forces there.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Support People Forces Afghan

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