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When placed in command, take charge.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
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
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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Angry Person Principle
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
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
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
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 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
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
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
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
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

When placed in command, take charge.

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