An awful lot has been written about my temper.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFFear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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