When placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAn awful lot has been written about my temper.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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