I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAny soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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.
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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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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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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