Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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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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