I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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To 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.
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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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It 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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I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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From 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.
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I 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.
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