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Norman Schwarzkopf

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Fight Soldier Veterans Day
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
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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Enemy Judging Looks
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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Country Destroy Intention
Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Military Motivational Win
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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Alarm Chemical
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
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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Leadership Want
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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Business Leadership Positive
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Angry Person Principle
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Arrangement Believe Function Job Military
A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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Advice Enemy God Love
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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Army Military War
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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Duty Rough
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Business Character Combination Leadership Strategy
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
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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Look Thinking Want
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
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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Art Men Military
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership Lucky Successful War
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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Alive Business Fear War
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War

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