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By George Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- Source
- War as I Knew It, November 1, 1947 · Reflections and Suggestions
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- Houghton Mifflin, 1947 (text read in the 1980 Bantam reprint, which says it is the complete original text)
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From the closing reflections on command in War as I Knew It, Patton's book on his campaigns, published in 1947 after his death.