Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
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… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
