Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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