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The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.
— 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
It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.
— Hyman Rickover
Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.
— Hyman Rickover
My water's wife broke!" he yells into the phone. Ohmygod! "You mean your wife's water broke?" "That's what I said, Jules! Her water broke!
— Kristen Proby
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
— Joanna Trollope
It was summer again, and the summer nights smelled like murdered grass and sounded like crickets fucking.
— Lev Grossman
Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.
— John Elder Robison
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.
— Hyman Rickover
I'm obsessed with being on time. If you say, 'Let's meet up at 10 A.M.,' I will be there 15 minutes early. Always.
— Stephanie Sigman
When doing a job - any job - one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.
— Hyman G. Rickover
They all have excellent resumes ... So what I'm trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.
— Hyman G. Rickover
The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
— Hyman G. Rickover
When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.
— Shah Rukh Khan
Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.
— Warren Farrell
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.
— Hyman Rickover
Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.
— Hyman Rickover
Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.
— Hyman Rickover
It has been said that speech differs from song as walking from dancing.
— Thomas Fillebrown
Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.
— Hyman Rickover
I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
— Hyman George Rickover
To Rickover the titles and organization charts meant nothing; only the realities of responsibility mattered.45
— U.S. Government
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
— Hyman Rickover
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
— Hyman G. Rickover
The job has not been done to Admiral Hyman Rickover's specifications. He admonished, "Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.
— Bernd Heinrich
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.
— 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 have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.
— Hyman Rickover
Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.
— Hyman G. Rickover
I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty (John 6:35).
— Will Davis Jr.
If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday
— Paulo Coelho
Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.
— Hyman G. Rickover