I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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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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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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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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 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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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
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