Willink Quotes

#1. Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership, and developing a plan to overcome challenges are integral to any successful team.

Jocko Willink

#2. I do think I've learned, in the ensuing years, how to be a more effective bandleader. And maybe, just maybe, we're a little better on our instruments.

David First

#3. Greed can overtake smart.

Bill Maher

#4. Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

Charles Mingus

#5. M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises ...

Neil Gaiman

#6. Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

Eamon De Valera

#7. Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them. If

Jocko Willink

#8. When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.

Paulo Coelho

#9. I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

Snoop Dogg

#10. I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. Your fascination with my ass isn't healthy, you know. I'm apparently already taken. My lover-to-be might beat you with his walking stick or toss his dentures at you if you put your gorilla-sized hands on that region of my body." Anger

Laurann Dohner

#12. The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

Jane Byrne

#13. That's the thing with a shooting star. By the time someone asks if you saw it, it's already gone.

Sherrie Petersen

#14. I learned that good leaders don't make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.

Jocko Willink

#15. One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.

Paul Dano

#16. You're stunning. And charming. Who needs to flirt when they're as smart as you.

Rachel Hauck