When placed in command, take charge.
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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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 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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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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.
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