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 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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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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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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’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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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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