The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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