1. “Leadership is about people. Effective leadership is about building relationships.”
2. “War is a profane thing.”
3. “The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.”
4. “I get angry at a principle, not a person.”
5. “A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice.”
6. “It is God’s job to forgive… It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.”
7. “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
8. “I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.”
9. “When place in command, take charge.”
10. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
11. “A professional soldier understands that war means killing people.”
12. “Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.”
13. “You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership.”
14. “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.”
15. “War means maiming people, war means families let without fathers and mothers.”
