Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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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 is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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