Well, 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.
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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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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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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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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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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