Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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
-
-
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
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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?
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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 SCHWARZKOPF -
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
When placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF