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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.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
War is a profane thing.
I like to say I'm not a hero.
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
When placed in command, take charge.
Choose to win Get mad, then get over it.
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.
Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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.
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.
Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.
Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.
What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'
Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
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.
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
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?
