I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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 get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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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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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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