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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFYou can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in 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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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