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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFDo what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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