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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFYou 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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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 is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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