How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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 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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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 am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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