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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.

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.
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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
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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Giving Leadership People
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Human Being Personality
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Angry Person Principle
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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Duty Rough
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
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
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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Country Destroy Intention
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War

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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