The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.

Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.