Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Hyman G. Rickover (American Admiral)

Hyman G. Rickover (1900–86,) fully Hyman George Rickover, was an American naval officer and engineer who was the moving force behind creating the American nuclear submarine fleet. He also oversaw plans for harnessing atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Rickover was infamous for his public temper tantrums and his bitter criticism of the military establishment.

Born in Maków Mazowiecki, Russia, now in Poland, Rickover was taken to the U.S. as a child. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. In 1929, he received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University.

Rickover’s most outstanding achievement was the leadership of the team that successfully adapted nuclear reactors as a means of ship propulsion. The USS Nautilus, launched in 1954, was the world’s first atomic submarine.

Concurrently, Rickover directed research on reactor development for the Atomic Energy Commission. He helped develop the first American full-scale, civilian-use nuclear power plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania (1956–57.) He was promoted to the rank of rear admiral (1953,) vice-admiral (1959,) and admiral (1973.) His leadership in nuclear propulsion and power generation was influential in developing a culture where safety was supreme.

Francis Duncan wrote Rickover and the Nuclear Navy (1990.)

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
Hyman G. Rickover
Topics: Ideas

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman G. Rickover
Topics: Perseverance

If you’re going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t.
Hyman G. Rickover
Topics: Friendship, Bureaucracy

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Hyman G. Rickover

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