The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt’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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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