Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWhen placed in command, take charge.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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