Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

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

In the final analysis, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It’s about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

If we have to go to war, we don’t want it to be a fair fight. We want it to be onesided.

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

The more you know about your adversary, the better prepared you can be to counter his efforts.

Soldiers and leaders of the future must first learn how to think, and then have the courage to act based upon their convictions.

I can’t think of anyone I’d rather have watching my back in a foxhole than a United States Marine.

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

The skill of a commander is measured by the decisions he makes.

In the military, when you’re embarrassed by someone, you say, ‘I’d rather have him with me than without me.’

Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes part 2

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

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

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

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

I think the Persian Gulf War would have been over much quicker if I had had absolute authority to do what I needed to do.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

If people see a danger in your course, they’ll line up against you—perhaps first privately, then vocally, and finally with open defiance.

The skill of a commander is measured by the decisions he makes.

I think the Persian Gulf War would have been over much quicker if I had had absolute authority to do what I needed to do.

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

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

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

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

I think the Persian Gulf War would have been over much quicker if I had had absolute authority to do what I needed to do.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

If people see a danger in your course, they’ll line up against you—perhaps first privately, then vocally, and finally with open defiance.

The skill of a commander is measured by the decisions he makes.

Do not wait for the perfect plan. Act now and revise it later.

The most powerful weapon in the world is the human soul on fire.

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

If the truth is spoken too loudly, it makes you nervous.

When placed in command, take charge.

I think what I owe the legacy of Vietnam is a remembrance of our chums whose sacrifices, at the time and even now, in ways seen and unseen, have provided a canopy under which I thrive.

The more closely you follow my recipe, the shorter and more successful the war will be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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