Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for 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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
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If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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