John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher Quotes
1841–1920 United Kingdom
- United Kingdom
- Military leaders
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Sea fighting is pure common sense. The first of all its necessities is SPEED, so as to be able to fight--When you like, Where you like, and How you like.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL.... Nature is no respecter of birth or money power when she lavishes her mental and physical gifts. We fight God when our Social System dooms the brilliant clever child of a poor man to the same level as his father.
Records (1919)
I went the whole hog, totus porcus.
The 3 Requisites for Success - Ruthless, Relentless, Remorseless (The 3 R's)
Memories (1919)
The luxuries of the present are the necessities of the future. Our grandfathers never had a bath-room....
Hit first! Hit hard! Keep on hitting!! (The 3 H's)
Memories (1919)
Favouritism is the secret of efficiency
Those who rise in peace are men of formality and routine, cautious, inoffensive...Hawke represented the spirit of war, the ardour, the swift initiative, the readiness of resource, the impatience of prescription and routine, without which no great things are done!
Fisher of Kilverstone (1973)
Big risks bring big success!