I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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 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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate 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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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.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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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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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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