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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
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
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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Giving Leadership People
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
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
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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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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Apologize Fish Hunt
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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Enemy Judging Looks
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
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
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
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.
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Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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Battle Courage Hero Veterans Day
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

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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