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 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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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 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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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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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