Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFFrom 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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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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 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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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’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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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