You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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 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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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership 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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in 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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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