Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
There is a finite group of major financial players... and overall, the best thing for all of us is to be in an industry that's well respected, well regarded, and well thought of.
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
A businessman can be as military as any politician.