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Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t. (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an officer of the court and keep the general interest always in mind. (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
To doubt one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don’t defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don’t be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools. (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client. (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb. (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
We bury the men who do the nation’s creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations. (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don’t go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others’ mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
You know that answer to that, don’t you. You don’t need me to tell you (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Administration is, or ought to be, a necessary overhead to aid production, and should at all times be kept as low as possible (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Some of the ideas I try to get across to the people who work for me are the following: (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts (Hyman Rickover Quotes)
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