Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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When placed in command, take charge.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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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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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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 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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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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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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