Quotes from Lord Mountbatten

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

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

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

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

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

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

I have been driven demented in my career.

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

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

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

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

You can divide my life into two.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

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

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?

I am much more intelligent than you think.

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

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

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

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

Marriage to a very rich woman posed problems.

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

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.