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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt’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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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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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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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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 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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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