The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFYou 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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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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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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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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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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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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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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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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