Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAny soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful 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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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