17 Best Jocko Willink Quotes

Business & Books
3 min readOct 18, 2023

Below is a Quick Bio and the 17 Best Quotes from Jocko Willink:

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Quick Bio

Jocko Willink is an American author and retired Navy SEAL, who was born in 1971 in Connecticut. Willink earned an English degree from the University of San Diego. He enlisted into the U.S. Navy and successfully completed BUD/S and SEAL trainings. He served eight years as an enlisted SEAL before commissioning and becoming an officer. His twenty years in service included deployments to Asia, Middle East, and Europe. Willink also served as a Navy SEAL instructor before retiring.

Following his military career, he started Echelon Front, a leadership consulting firm, with his SEAL teammate Leif Babin. As an author, he has written Extreme Ownership, The Dichotomy of Leadership, Discipline Equals Freedom, and Leadership Strategy and Tactics. Willink has also found success with “The Jocko Podcast.”

17 Best Quotes

  1. “Good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get things done”
  2. “You already know what the right thing to do is. You just gotta do it”
  3. “People who are successful decide they are going to be successful. They make that choice. They decide to study hard. They decide to work hard. They decide to be the first person to get to work and the…

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