Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten Quotes

• You can divide my life into two.

  Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten

• 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?

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• This is the war I fear.

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

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• The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

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

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

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

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• My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

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

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

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

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

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• I have been driven demented in my career.

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Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten (25)

Birth:	25th June, 1900
Death:	27th August, 1979
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Chairman, Naval Officer, Royalty, Statesman

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