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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Judge 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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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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