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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Arrangement Believe Function Job Military
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Fight Soldier Veterans Day
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
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
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Character Leadership Strategy
It’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?
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Duty Rough
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
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Help Relationship Success
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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Look Thinking Want
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
When placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Charge Command Leadership
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Absolute Hate War
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Angry Person Principle
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 SCHWARZKOPF

Alarm Chemical
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Human Being Personality

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