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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
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.
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Great Love People Thinking
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Military Motivational Peace Sports
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Absolute Hate War
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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Business Leadership Positive
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Character Leadership Strategy
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Apologize Fish Hunt
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Human Being Personality
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Art Men Military
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Cancer Normal Proof
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
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Alarm Chemical
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Leadership Lucky Successful War
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Army Military War

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