347 Quotes by Jocko Willink

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

If you allow the status quo to persist, you can’t expect to improve performance, and you can’t expect to win.

If people don’t respond to your leadership, and your reaction is to get more and more aggressive with them, they aren’t likely to come around.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‘You don’t know anything.’ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

If frontline troops are unclear about the plan and yet are too intimidated to ask questions, the team’s ability to effectively execute the plan radically decreases.

I’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

I know that somewhere out there, another man is also preparing. That man is the enemy.

I had to take complete ownership of what went wrong. That is what a leader does — even if it means getting fired. If anyone was to be blamed and fired for what happened, let it be me.