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“Under pressure, even the smartest people will start to rationalize that frogs really can turn into princes.”
― Pierre Mornell, Hiring Smart!: How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game

“As a leader employing Extreme Ownership, if your team isn’t doing what you need them to do, you first have to look at yourself. Rather than blame them for not seeing the strategic picture, you must figure out a way to better communicate it to them in terms that are simple, clear, and concise, so that they understand. This is what leading down the chain of command is all about.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“Old soldiers never die, you know; they only fade away.”
― Dennis Wheatley, Faked Passports

“It never made much sense to me to see guys buying guns and going to the range with the excuse that it was for self-defense when the same guy is 100 pounds overweight, smoking two packets of cigarettes a day and eating a diet of fried food, pizzas and beer. He’s going to die from a self-inflicted heart attack or stroke before he ever ends up needing his gun for self-defense”
― Nick Hughes, How To Be Your Own Bodyguard