20 Famous Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (August 22, 1934 – December 27, 2012), also known as Stormin' Norman, was a United States Army 4 Star General who, while he served as Commander-in-Chief (now known as "Combatant Commander") of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991.
Below are 20 Famous Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes:
Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
1. The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
2. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
3. Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
4. Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
5. Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
6. 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
7. I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
8. You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
9. How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
10. I could guess what was going on.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
11. The mothers and fathers of America will give you their sons and daughters…with the confidence in you that you will not needlessly waste their lives. And you dare not. That’s the burden the mantle of leadership places upon you. You could be the person who gives the orders that will bring about the deaths of thousands and thousands of young men and women. It is an awesome responsibility. You cannot fail. You dare not fail…
― Norman Schwarzkopf
12. Yesterday Iraq had the fourth largest Army in the world. Today they have the second largest Army in Iraq.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
13. War is a profane thing.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
14. 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
15. I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
16. I get angry at a principle, not a person.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
17. 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
18. The day we executed the air campaign, I said, "we gotcha!
― Norman Schwarzkopf
19. When placed in command, take charge.
― Norman Schwarzkopf
20. 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
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