It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFTo 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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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