I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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 is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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