3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf 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.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf 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.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf 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.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf 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.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.