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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Secret Success Sweat Sweet
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Leadership Want
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.
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Enemy Judging Looks
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership Lucky Successful War
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Fight Soldier Veterans Day
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War
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.
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Giving Leadership People
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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Want War Wise
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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Country Destroy Intention
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
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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Business Leadership Positive
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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Advice Enemy God Love
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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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time

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