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Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

Major Dick Winters

Develop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.
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Development Example Expectation Goals People Real Teamwork
The intensity of a fire, or a heavy concentration, to be a leader, you have to be able to concentrate on that fire and move just as soon as it stops or the last round hits.
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Concentration Fire Intensity Leadership Stop
If combat had taught me anything, it taught me what was essential in life and what wasn’t.
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Essential Life Teaching
If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones. You take the tough ones too.
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Easy Leadership Tough
If you have character, that means the guy you are dealing with can trust you.
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Character Deal Guy Trust
We all experienced sleep deprivation at times – hat is the nature of stress but a physically exhausted leader routinely makes poor decisions in times of crisis.
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Deprivation Exhaust Experience Hat Leadership Nature Physical Stress
Anticipate problems and prepare to overcome obstacles. Don’t wait until you get to the top of the ridge and then make up your mind.
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Anticipate Mind Obstacle Problem Wait
I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.
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Critical Failure Leadership War
I would also urge leaders to remain humble. If you don’t worry about who gets the credit, you get a lot more done.
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Credit Done Humble Leadership Urge Worry
The men trust in you, have faith in you, and they obey, no questions asked. That’s character in a nutshell.
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Character Faith Men Question Trust
We salute the rank not the man.
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Man Rank Slute Soldier
War exposes the best and worst of those who are called to fight. I know of no man who lacked character in peace and then discovered his character in combat.
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Character Discover Fight Lack Peace War
Because I was in such good shape, my fatigue level never reached the point of physical exhaustion that contributes to mental exhaustion and, ultimately, to combat fatigue.
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Contribution Exhaust Fatigue Physical War
War is romantic only to those who are far away from the sounds and turmoil of battle.
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Battle Romantic Sound War
A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
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Acquire Impossible Man Place
Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
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Concentration Men

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