It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful 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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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