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Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.

Major Dick Winters

We all experienced sleep deprivation at times – hat is the nature of stress but a physically exhausted leader routinely makes poor decisions in times of crisis.
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Deprivation Exhaust Experience Hat Leadership Nature Physical Stress
War brings out the worst and the best in people. Wars do not make men great, but they do bring out the greatness in good men.
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Greatness People War Worse
Remain humble. Don’t worry about who receives the credit. Never let power or authority go to your head.
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Authority Credit Head Humble Receive Worry
A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
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Acquire Impossible Man Place
If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones. You take the tough ones too.
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Easy Leadership Tough
War exposes the best and worst of those who are called to fight. I know of no man who lacked character in peace and then discovered his character in combat.
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Character Discover Fight Lack Peace War
Lead from the front. Say, “Follow me!” and then lead the way.
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Follow Leadership Soldier
One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I’m not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.
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Company Hero Serve War
Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
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Concentration Men
I have always prided myself that I do my own thinking. I have my own philosophy. I have my own answer to the reasons things have turned out in my life.
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Answer Life Philosophy Pride Reason
If combat had taught me anything, it taught me what was essential in life and what wasn’t.
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Essential Life Teaching
As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
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Calculation Leadership Loss War
Develop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.
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Development Example Expectation Goals People Real Teamwork
The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.
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Key Leadership Man Rank Respect Success
Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
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Permanent Problem Solution Suicide
The only thing I asked for now was to be alive tomorrow morning and to survive another day. That was all that mattered.
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Alive Survive Tomorrow War

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