You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFTo 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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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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 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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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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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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