An awful lot has been written about my temper.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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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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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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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 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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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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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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