Words matter. These are the best Gordon Bethune Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don’t know of any pilots that don’t have a self-interest in staying alive.
Somebody who knows what they’re doing, who has a good track record, they come across as very articulate, bright and looking for a challenge – that’s absolutely my kind of hire.
It really helps to know what success is before you get there, and if you know, then you can head right for it. For some people, it’s the most money. For some, it’s the most power. For some, it’s the most girlfriends. Everybody’s got a measure. For me, I guess it’s having the respect and admiration of your peers.
It’s the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.
Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.
No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don’t respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.
The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you’re all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.
There is no economy without airlines. Airfreight runs the world. There is no Honolulu without an airplane. This is a very complex system. If you take it down, you can’t build it back up overnight.
It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.
You’re only as good as your dumbest competitor.
Every pilot thinks they’re the best pilot in the world. I think I’m the best pilot.
A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.
Whether I’m at the hangar or at the airport or on an airplane, I get respect. And that’s the best part of my day.
I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins.
It’s difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don’t know anybody that’s perfect and doesn’t have a zit somewhere.
