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
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWhen placed in command, take charge.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in 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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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