Hyman Rickover. Hyman George Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986), was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who invented the nuclear submarine. Rickover was known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy". The best quotations and sayings about business with comments.
A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.
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 tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.
Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you learn nothing. Don't push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. If a subordinate always agrees with his superior he is a useless part of the organization.
Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.
Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.
A man, by working 24 hours a day, could multiply himself 3 times. To multiply himself more than 3 times the only recourse is to train others to take over some of his work.
You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.