When you are in command, there is always the next decision waiting to be made. You don’t have time to pace back and forth like Hamlet, zigzagging one way and the other. You do your best and live with the consequences. A commander has to compartmentalize his emotions and remain focused on the mission. You must decide, act, and move on.
Jim Mattis

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Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis

Former United States Secretary of Defense and co-author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, ­Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead.

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