141 Quotes by Jim Mattis

In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

I don't worry about stress. I create it.

There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.