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 SCHWARZKOPFChoose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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