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
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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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