Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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An awful lot has been written about my temper. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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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. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#figure #good #got #how #human

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. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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