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 SCHWARZKOPFWell, 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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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 don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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