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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

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
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
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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Apologize Fish Hunt
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
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
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War
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
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet
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
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Arrangement Believe Function Job Military
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
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper

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