52 Quotes by James G. Stavridis

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

Some have called Afghanistan ‘the graveyard of empires,’ and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I’m interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

What’s the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It’s the Facebook nation – 430 million people on Facebook.

Life is not an on and off switch. You don’t have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It’s a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

Thinklogical’s systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.

We seem to have lost our capacity for politeness and for genuine concern about the quality of our interactions in this hectic century.

The character lesson, when you strip the centuries-old setting away, is that only a leader who is personally disciplined herself or himself can realistically apply significant discipline to an organization.