You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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’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?
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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