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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Business Character Combination Leadership Strategy
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
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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Battle Courage Hero Veterans Day
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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Look Thinking Want
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
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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Alarm Chemical
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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Army Military War
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership Lucky Successful War
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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Giving Leadership People
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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Enemy Judging Looks

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