When placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFSuccess is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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