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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership Lucky Successful War
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
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
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
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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Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
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
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
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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Art Men Military
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
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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Alive Business Fear War
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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Advice Enemy God Love
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
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet

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