Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
Quotes by General Norman Schwarzkopf

United States Army General who served as Commander of U.S. Central Command
and was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991
Military Liberty

"War is a profane thing."

"Leadership is motivating people."

"Fear will keep you alive in a war."

"When placed in command - take charge."

"Life is worth living and life should be lived."

"I find, the military is someplace between the calling and the profession."

"Anybody who says they're not afraid of war is either a liar, or they're crazy."

"My job is to think of everything that could possibly go wrong, and then try and fix it."

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

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

"If you're not confident in yourself, how can you expect anybody else to have confidence in you?"

"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."

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

"Someone once said, when it quits getting fun, you ought to get out. And I say, whoever said that has never been a leader of troops."

"If you lead men in battle, I don't care whether you're a sergeant, or a second lieutenant, or a four-star General, they're your people."

"So, the true modern leader of today is the one that's, number one, willing to take charge, and willing to do what's right. That's the secret of leadership."

"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."

"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."

"The most fulfilling times I've had were times when I was doing my duty, with no personal gain for myself. I got nothing tangible from it, and yet I got everything from it"

"A man does not get to write his own epitaph. But if I were to write mine it would say the following: He loved his family, and he loved his troops, and they loved him -- period."

"Leadership is an art, not a science. It cannot be reduced down to a piece of paper and a bunch of very simple mechanical equations that you apply to it, and out the end drops the answer"

"Anybody who says they're not afraid of war is either a liar, or they're crazy. And there's nothing wrong with fear. I mean, fear is good. Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business."

"I had studied the Iraqis in great detail in their battles against the Iranians. I knew what their strengths and weaknesses were. I also knew the forces I had under my command, and I knew what their strengths and weaknesses were. I adopted a campaign plan that capitalized on using our strengths against their weaknesses - and avoided their strengths, and avoided our weaknesses. That's a pretty good strategy for any kind of business you're in."

"You've got to believe in what you're doing. If you don't believe in what you're doing, you're not going to do it well. You truly have to believe in it. You have to believe that you're doing what's right. And I don't think I could go to war -- I mean I don't think ultimately I could serve my country -- if I thought we were doing something wrong. I think I would get out, I would leave. You don't have to stay, you have an alternative. It's not like the German generals who tried to justify what they did at the Nuremberg trials by saying, "I was only doing my duty." That's not right, because you have higher duties. You have a duty to your moral code, whatever it might be. You've got to do what's right."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Liberty-vs-Tyranny.com

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