Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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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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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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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 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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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