Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten Quotes

You can divide my life into two.

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?

This is the war I fear.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain’s decisions.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

My mother said, Don’t worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you’ve done well.

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.

Men o’ war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

It never entered my father’s mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one’s best ability.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

I have been driven demented in my career.