I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFChoose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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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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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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 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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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