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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Arrangement Believe Function Job Military
I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Angry Person Principle
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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God Job War
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
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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Giving Leadership People
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Human Being Personality
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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Country Destroy Intention
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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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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Apologize Fish Hunt
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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Alarm Chemical
A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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Advice Enemy God Love
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Fight Soldier Veterans Day
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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Art Men Military
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Business Character Combination Leadership Strategy
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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Duty Rough
I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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Army Military War
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership Lucky Successful War
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics

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