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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Absolute Hate War
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Cancer Normal Proof
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Fight Soldier Veterans Day
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Army Military War
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Art Men Military
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Angry Person Principle
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Great Love People Thinking
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Enemy Judging Looks
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Giving Leadership People
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Look Thinking Want
Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Alive Business Fear War
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Lousy Politics
It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

God Job War
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True

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