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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Army Military War
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
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
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Awful Temper
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Business Character Combination Leadership Strategy
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Look Thinking Want
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
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Lousy Politics
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Leadership Lucky Successful War
Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Military Motivational Win
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Chaotic Circumstance Pride
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Enemy Judging Looks
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Angry Person Principle
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

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

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