25 Quotes by Richard Marcinko

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.

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.

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.

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.

Popularity is not leadership.

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.

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

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.

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.