Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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