To 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFSuccess is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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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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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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