How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFJudge 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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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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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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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