| Quote | Tags | Rank |
|---|
| My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well. | | 101 |
| The primary factor in a successful attack is speed. | | 102 |
| Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand. | | 103 |
| My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me. | | 104 |
| Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province. | | 105 |
| Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. | Intelligence | 106 |
| Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming. | | 107 |
| Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. | | 108 |
| I have been driven demented in my career. | | 109 |
| It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life. | | 110 |
| The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions. | | 111 |
| I am much more intelligent than you think. | | 112 |
| I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn. | | 113 |
| I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man. | | 114 |
| Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. | | 115 |
| My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness. | | 116 |
| No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew. | | 117 |
| This is the war I fear. | | 118 |
| What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse? | | 119 |
| You can divide my life into two. | | 120 |
| I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. | | 121 |
| I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time. | | 122 |
| I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled. | | 123 |
| In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society. | | 124 |
| It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability. | | 125 |
