Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFNinety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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 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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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