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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

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

Business Leadership Positive
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Character Failure Leadership
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
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Country Hunt War
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Help Relationship Success
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Apologize Fish Hunt
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 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
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

Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
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 SCHWARZKOPF

Giving Leadership People
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
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
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Alarm Chemical
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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Look Thinking Want
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
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

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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