You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFYou can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFHow do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFA professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFGood 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 SCHWARZKOPFWhen placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFFear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFSuccess is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt’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?
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFChoose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFTrue courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAs far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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