Supreme Command Quotes

“Much of leadership is knowing whom to select, whom to encourage, whom to restrain, and whom to replace.”
― Eliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities … because it is the quality which guarantees all others,” Churchill said.”
― Eliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime

“An irascible man who understood his own character, he would hold off on any personnel decision for twenty-four hours, allowing his judgment to dominate his temper.”
― Eliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime