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 SCHWARZKOPFWell, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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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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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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 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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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