Jack Keane Quotes

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

In picking Gen. Jim Mattis for Defense secretary, President-elect Donald Trump has said that he found his 'Gen. George Patton.' Yet that label may not really capture what makes Mattis a distinctive choice.

Aside from the likability factor, I can criticize Hillary's politics all day long, but I never question her intelligence. I have never doubted that she is a strong, capable, smart leader.

Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

Everyone honors the wise.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

I have had the advantage of the opportunity to meet with Mr. Trump on several occasions. And my experience is that he's very intelligent. He's thirsty for information. He wants to hear what you have to say. He listens to his advisers. He digests the information very quickly, and he's got a good memory, because I remember one time I was talking to him about something, and then he pulled some information out of his memory banks that was a great connection that I hadn't even thought to mention to him.

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

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

People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.