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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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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 is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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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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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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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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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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