• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Related Topics

LeadershipWant

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius|

More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

• 

  I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  LousyPolitics
• 

  Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  CharacterLeadershipStrategy
• 

  Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  BusinessCharacterCombinationLeadershipStrategy
• 

  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 SCHWARZKOPF
  CharacterDealJudgmentMenSuperior
• 

  It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  GodJobWar
• 

  When placed in command, take charge.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  ChargeCommandLeadership
• 

  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.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  BattleCourageHeroVeterans Day
• 

  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.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  AccomplishmentLossMissionRealizationTrying
• 

  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.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  EnemyJudgingLooks
• 

  How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  AccommodateCareFightKillWar
• 

  I get angry at a principle, not a person.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  AngryPersonPrinciple
• 

  I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  ApologizeFishHunt
• 

  I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  Human BeingPersonality
• 

  Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  MilitaryMotivationalWin
• 

  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.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  BusinessLeadershipPositive
• 

  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.

  NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
  WantWarWise