Quotes about Command Performance

James G. Stavridis

Rested commanders are the best commanders.

Julie Christie

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

Arleigh Burke

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

William Wyler

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

Paul Heyman

I look at every promo I do as a command performance to do better than I did the previous week if not deliver the best promo of my life.

Abraham Lincoln

I certainly have been dissatisfied with the slowness of Buell and McClellan; but before I relieved them I had great fears I should not find successors to them, who would do better...

This has been a problem for not only Presidents and Governors, but all managers and administrators. When to terminate a subordinate who is not performing adequately. There is always the chance that the new appointee is no better or possibly even worse.

Stonewall Jackson

With such interference in my command I cannot expect to be of much service in the field

The Confederate War Department was directly giving instructions to other officers in his command. Jackson was about to resign. Lee had not yet been given command of all the Confederate forces, and one of his great contributions was to be a buffer between Jefferson Davis and his War Department vis a vis the Senior Confederate officers. See for another example of the friction in the Confederacy.

Douglas MacArthur

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Rachel Caine

You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

Command Performance Quotes