Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFTrue courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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 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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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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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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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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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