How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFA professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
-
-
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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 -
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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 -
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF






