How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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