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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

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
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
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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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
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
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
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
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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Look Thinking Want
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
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
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
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
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
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
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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Cancer Normal Proof

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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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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