Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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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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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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