Hyman Rickover Quotes

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

There are a lot of opportunities in journalism that are like that, where if you have good ideas and really care about something, and you persist, you can get them. Show up in person. Write that extra email. It goes much farther than people realize.

When I stand up in front of groups of people who agree with me, I know I have to really step my game up because I can't just sort of meet them where they're at; I have to take them somewhere else. They want you to challenge them and have good ideas.

I was networking every day from 21 to 28 years old. I sent 10 letters a day, which means I reached out to 3,000 people in a year.

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

There will never come a time when you don't have to practice

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

I've learned what Trump has taught - we need to put our best foot forward and don't let anybody block us from anything that we wish to do or want to do.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting.

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.