You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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