Brandon Webb Quotes
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The consequences of leaking sensitive information is that Americans and coalition forces die, and we lose trust with foreign spies, and our national security is put at risk.
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I'm real careful doing public appearances because look at what happened to my friend Chris Kyle.
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The people with whom I've worked in the Special Operations community are more concerned with an individual's contribution to the team, and their ability to do their job exceptionally well, than their race or sexual preferences.
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We saw the integration of the female pilots in the Navy, in combat roles, and the resistance there in the beginning.
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I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.
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The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.
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What is SOCOM's mission statement in two sentences? Most people I know in SOF cannot recite it. If it's not clear from the bottom up, then it's a problem.
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Whether you have incredible products like at Apple or a great service business, it all comes down to fundamental trust and relationship-building with your customers.
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Violence of action, as we call it in the Spec Ops community, will often change the odds in your favor.
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It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.
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Three days doesn't sound like a very long time, and under normal, everyday circumstances, it's not - but under POW camp conditions, it doesn't take long to wear down a man's sanity.
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I am not a tall man.
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With rare exceptions, Hollywood typically casts Spec Ops guys as macho, swaggering strongmen. As usual, Hollywood's got it wrong.
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A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.
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I'm a big fan of economist Milton Freidman.
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The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.
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A good decision executed quickly is better than a great one never executed.
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If I had to identify the one skill set shared by most by the men who become part of the SEAL teams... it would be sheer brainpower.
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I sleep well at night.
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There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.
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The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.
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It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.
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Time bandits come at all hours, wanting conversations, wasting conversations, wanting meetings, wasting meetings, and all with no purpose.
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It's important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.