Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIf 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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of 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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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