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 SCHWARZKOPFA professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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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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