73 Quotes by Brandon Webb

Whatever it is that you do, you are making a stand, either for excellence or for mediocrity.

To me, this is one of the strongest marks of great leadership. Nobody is always right. Great leaders use that to learn and improve, instead of fighting it.

If intellectual capacity is a sniper’s foremost qualification, the number two trait is patience. We will take out any enemy we have to when the situation calls for it, whether that means using a rifle, a handgun, a knife, or our bare hands. Yet the sniper’s fundamental craft is not killing a person, but being able to get close enough to do so. Osman and I were on a classic sniper stalking mission: track, sneak up, observe, and disappear again, leaving no trace behind.

Conventional wisdom is not always wrong – but it’s always suspect.

It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.

I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.

Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.

I am proud to be a SEAL and serve in the military.

There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.