100 Quotes by Erik Prince

I'm no hero. The world knows all too well about my mistakes. But I was never meant to play the villain.

My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.

Any time you employ thousands of people, some people do dumb things.

For people to mischaracterize my time or ownership of Blackwater as being some great financial bonanza, it was not. It was most definitely not.

I loved being a SEAL. I loved working with those kind of guys and a sense of mission, and Blackwater was started to continue that sense of mission.

Blackwater's work with the CIA began when we provided specialized instructors and facilities that the Agency lacked. In the years that followed, the company became a virtual extension of the CIA because we were asked time and again to carry out dangerous missions, which the Agency either could not or would not do in-house.

I'm a strong supporter of the military.

I believe there is significant overreach by the NSA in how it monitors American citizens.

I'm a pretty stubborn guy. I don't quit too easily.