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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Fight Soldier Veterans Day
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
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
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
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
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
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
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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Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Military Motivational Win
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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Great Love People Thinking
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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Alive Business Fear War
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Human Being Personality
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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Alarm Chemical
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
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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Want War Wise

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