Hugh Shelton Quotes

In covert operations, quality is much more important than quantity. A small number of competent people can be much more useful than a large number of incompetents.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.

Good is the enemy of great.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Valor is superior to number.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

When you have the weapon that will win the war, you'd be foolish not to use it.

Superior technical achievements — used correctly both strategically and tactically — can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

Our goal has never been to make the most. It's always been to make the best.

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

The Navy Seals don't travel with 200 people, they wouldn't be able to execute the kind of tip-of-the-spear missions they do.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.