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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

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Business Character Combination Leadership Strategy
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
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
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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Enemy Judging Looks
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
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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Look Thinking Want
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Human Being Personality
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
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
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet
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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Country Destroy Intention
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
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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Battle Courage Hero Veterans Day

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