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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFJudge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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