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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Giving Leadership People
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Great Love People Thinking
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Art Men Military
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Help Relationship Success
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

Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
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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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Business Leadership Positive
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Chaotic Circumstance Pride
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Absolute Hate War
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

Country Destroy Intention
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Character Leadership Strategy
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
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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Duty Rough
Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Alive Business Fear War
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Arrangement Believe Function Job Military

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