Lord Mountbatten
Lord Mountbatten
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS, known informally as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II. During the Second World War, he was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command. He was the last Viceroy of Indiaand the first Governor-General of the independent Dominion...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth25 June 1900
The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
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.
I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other 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.
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?
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.