I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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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.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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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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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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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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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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