Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFChoose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFYou 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 SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWhen placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt’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?
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFGood 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAny soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFA 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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 SCHWARZKOPFFrom 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 SCHWARZKOPFAs 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 SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFJudge 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 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.
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