Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFGoing to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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