Life Quotes by Hyman Rickover

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

— Hyman Rickover

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

— Hyman Rickover

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hyman Rickover

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

— 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

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

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

— 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…

— Hyman Rickover

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

— Hyman Rickover