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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI hate war. Absolutely, I hate 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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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