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 SCHWARZKOPFI’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate 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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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