Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFHow do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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With 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
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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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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.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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