Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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