Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme quality for leadership is 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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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...
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower