Marcinko Quotes

#1. The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Richard Marcinko

#2. American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.

Andrew Weil

#3. Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Richard Marcinko

#4. Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

Richard Marcinko

#5. I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

Eduardo Galeano

#6. Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Richard Marcinko

#7. Have character, but don't be a character.

Richard Marcinko

#8. We all sat there and looked at each other and didn't look at each other. We chewed gum, drank coffee, went into restrooms, urinated, slept. We sat on the hard benches and smoked cigarettes we didn't want to smoke. We looked at each other and didn't like what we saw.

Charles Bukowski

#9. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens.

V.E Schwab

#10. Health and programming should go together like a horse and carriage. You can't have one without the other. In our sedentary office work, we often forget that an absence of health is as bad as a lack of programming skills.

Staffan Noteberg

#11. Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

Ann Coulter

#12. To be great at a few things and experience it, you'll have to say no to many things.

Craig Groeschel

#13. Call it a character flaw
when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

Richard Marcinko

#14. There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

Richard Marcinko

#15. What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Richard Marcinko

#16. Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.

Jonathan King

#17. The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.

Richard Marcinko

#18. For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

Richard Marcinko

#19. Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

Richard Marcinko

#20. Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Richard Marcinko

#21. Popularity is not leadership.

Richard Marcinko