“I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cann...” — Jim Mattis Quote

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies - I was Armed with Insight.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.