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Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By U.S. Government

To Rickover the titles and organization charts meant nothing; only the realities of responsibility mattered.45 — U.S. Government

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom ... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready to change his line sharply and suddenly, with no concern for the prejudices and memories of what was yesterday. To rest upon formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

Responsibility is a unique concept ... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you ... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman George Rickover

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb. — Hyman George Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman George Rickover

Through concentrating on a specialty too early in life, a man becomes a kind of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquire an understanding for, and a lively feeling for values. Otherwise, with his specialized knowledge, he more closely resembles a well-trained — Hyman George Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was approved by Congress - which represents our people. All of you live in safety from domestic enemies because of security from the police. Likewise, you live in safety from foreign enemies because our military keeps them from attacking us. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh? — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

When doing a job - any job - one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

They all have excellent resumes ... So what I'm trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don't push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Bernd Heinrich

The job has not been done to Admiral Hyman Rickover's specifications. He admonished, "Nature is not as forgiving as Christ. — Bernd Heinrich

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman G. Rickover

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. — Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman George Rickover

Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts. — Hyman George Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more. — Hyman Rickover

Rickover Quotes By Hyman Rickover

The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it. — Hyman Rickover