Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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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 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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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