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

- Norman Schwarzkopf

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will t…

- Norman Schwarzkopf

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

- Norman Schwarzkopf

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that,…

- Norman Schwarzkopf

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

- 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

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

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

- Norman Schwarzkopf

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

- Norman Schwarzkopf