More - Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

 American Soldier Character

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

 American Soldier

So the alarms went off all the time over there. When they did, we put our troops in protective gear and then we sent in our most sophisticated equipment.

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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

 American Soldier Conflict

There were no reports, absolutely none, zero, ... I would have loved to have announced that we found huge caches of chemical weapons.

Norman Schwarzkopf

 

We knew they had them, ... We had some very definite locations, particularly the production facilities... As far as the front-line ammo depot and where they might and might not have been located, we didn't know, and therefore we assumed every single one of them had chemical weapons.

Norman Schwarzkopf

 

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,

Norman Schwarzkopf

 

When placed in command / take charge.

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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

 American Soldier Leadership

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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