Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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