Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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 don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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 is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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