Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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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 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 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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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