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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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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.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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