347 Quotes by Jocko Willink

The goal of all leaders should be to work themselves out of a job. This means leaders must be heavily engaged in training and mentoring their junior leaders to prepare them to step up and assume greater responsibilities. When mentored and coached properly, the junior leader can eventually replace the senior leader, allowing the senior leader to move on to the next level of leadership.

Relax. Look around. Make a call.

Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests. They.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.

As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him – and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership,” I.

It is critical for leaders to act decisively amid uncertainty; to make the best decisions they can based on only the immediate information available.

Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.

There is only one person to blame for this: me. I am the commander. I am responsible for the entire operation. As the senior man, I am responsible for every action that takes place on the battlefield. There is no one to blame but me. And I will tell you this right now: I will make sure that nothing like this ever happens to us again.