The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWhen placed in command, take charge.
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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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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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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