Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFChoose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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As 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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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 have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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