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?
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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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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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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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