You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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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 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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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