An awful lot has been written about my temper.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFTo 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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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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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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’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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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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