You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFYou 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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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