If you train people properly, they won’t be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
—Richard Marcinko
Topics: Business
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.
—Richard Marcinko
Topics: Change
Popularity is not leadership.
—Richard Marcinko
Topics: Leadership, Popularity, Leaders
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.
—Richard Marcinko
Topics: Practice
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.
—Richard Marcinko
Topics: Pain
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