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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
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
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Business Leadership Positive
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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Leadership Want
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Angry Person Principle
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
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
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
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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Alive Business Fear War
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
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

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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