Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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