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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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 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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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