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- Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.
- The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. James Stockdale. Success, Education, Failure.
- It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out. James Stockdale. Hero, Disaster.
- Great leaders gain authority by giving it away. James Stockdale. Giving, Leader, Gains.
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- “A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning of history.
- “So what Epictetus was telling his students was that there can be no such thing as being the "victim" of another. You can only be a "victim" of yourself.
- “George Bernard Shaw said that most people who fail complain that they are the victims of circumstances. Those who get on in this world, he said, are those who go out and look for the right circumstances.
- “Epictetus: "The judgment seat and a prison is each a place, the one high, the other low; but the attitude of your will can be kept the same, if you want to keep it the same, in either place.”
7 quotes from Jim Stockdale: 'You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end -- which you can never afford to lose -- with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.', 'Stress is essential to leadership.
Vice presidential candidate, 1992. James Bond "Jim" Stockdale (December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005) was a United States Navy vice admiral and aviator who was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was a prisoner of war for over seven years. Stockdale was the most senior naval officer held captive in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
- 1946–1979
- Vice admiral
Jul 5, 2005 · James Stockdale. “Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.”. James Stockdale. “Entitlement and privilege corrupt.”. James Stockdale. “Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.”. James Stockdale. “I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.”.
Dec 1, 1993 · Short Summary: As a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, James Stockdale shot down, captured, and imprisoned for eight brutal years. He used the wisdom of stoicism to survive and grow stronger in prison.
