Richard Marcinko Quotes

Popularity is not leadership.

We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they`ve always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you`re a leader, you can`t let your people hang on to the past.

Pain was their body`s way of telling them that they`d pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.