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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFChoose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFDo what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFYou can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFHow do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFThe more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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 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 SCHWARZKOPFWith 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 SCHWARZKOPFI 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFFear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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