Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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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 get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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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 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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