I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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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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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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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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 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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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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