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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership Lucky Successful War
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Angry Person Principle
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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Business Leadership Positive
I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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Army Military War
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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Duty Rough
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
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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God Job War
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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Giving Leadership People
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
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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Leadership Want
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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Art Men Military
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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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time

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