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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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Apologize Fish Hunt
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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Business Leadership Positive
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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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
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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God Job War
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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Cancer Normal Proof
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
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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Leadership Want
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Arrangement Believe Function Job Military
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
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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Want War Wise
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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Country Destroy Intention
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy

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