Andy Gates Quotes

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it`s the size of the fight in the dog

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

You don`t lead by hitting people over the head-that`s assault, not leadership.

Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Don`t join the book burners. Don`t think you`re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don`t be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.