Richard Marcinko Sayings

#1. Stout as a horse

Walt Whitman

#2. Shoot first and ask questions not at all

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#3. 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.

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#4. My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

George Clooney

#5. 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.

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#6. Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Wayne Dyer

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

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#8. Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

Thomas Sowell

#9. Belly strippers! The use of this device is one of the most highly prized - and highly priced - secrets of fast-money winners.

John Scarne

#10. Popularity is not leadership.

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

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

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

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#14. 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.

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

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#16. 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.

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

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#18. 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.

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