Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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