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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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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Alarm Chemical
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
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
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
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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Country Destroy Intention
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
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
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
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
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
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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