Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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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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.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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