Richard Marcinko Quotes

• 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

  Change, Hurt, Confused

  Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”

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• Popularity is not leadership.

  Richard Marcinko

  Popularity

  Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”

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• 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

  Leader, Followers, World

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• Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

  Richard Marcinko

  Character, Counter Attack, Flaws

  Richard Marcinko (2005). “Vengeance”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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

  Richard Marcinko

  Home, Knives, Cards

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

  Richard Marcinko

  Failure, Risk, Kind

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

  Richard Marcinko

  Training, Combat

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• 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

  Winning, Past, Way

  Richard Marcinko (1995). “Green Team”, Atria Books

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• When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing.

  Richard Marcinko

  Death, Sacrifice, Fighting

  Richard Marcinko (2010). “Red Cell”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Motivation, Desire, Limits

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• 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

  Pain, Bad Ass, Way

  Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”

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• I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do we keep score??

  Richard Marcinko

  Winning, Games, Important

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Have character, but don't be a character.

  Richard Marcinko

  Character

  Richard Marcinko (2000). “The Real Team: Rogue Warrior”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I ask my children (all of them) to be what they want to be; just be the best they can at what they choose.

  Richard Marcinko

  Children, Want, Being The Best

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Shoot first and ask questions not at all

  Richard Marcinko

  Patriotic, Firsts, Asks

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• The combat of WAR and an economic WAR have a lot of similarities. You do have to be skilled, aggressive, know your enemy and your strong attributes and limitations. Both skills are needed although one may be more natural.

  Richard Marcinko

  Strong, War, Skills

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter".

  Richard Marcinko

  War, Gray Matter, Victory

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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