I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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