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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAs 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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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