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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage 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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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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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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