Responsibility 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… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done — Hyman Rickover Copy Share
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
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
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
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share
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
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
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share
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
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share
Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share
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 Copy Share
