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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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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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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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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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