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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
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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Enemy Judging Looks
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War
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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Army Military War
Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Military Motivational Win
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Human Being Personality
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
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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Look Thinking Want
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Angry Person Principle
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Business Character Combination Leadership Strategy
With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
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Alarm Chemical
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
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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God Job War
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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Duty Rough

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