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 SCHWARZKOPFTo 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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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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 am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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