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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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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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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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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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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