Top 55 Jared Isaacman Quotes

Our mission to space had to serve a bigger purpose, which is why St. Jude is such a big part of this. It can’t simply just be about opening the door to space for everyday people.

I could have just invited a bunch of my pilot buddies to go, and we would have had a great time and come back and had a bunch of cocktails. Instead, we wanted to bring in everyday people and energize everyone else around the idea of opening up spaceflight to more and more of us.

St. Jude’s mission is not about rockets or space exploration, it’s about treating some of the most heart wrenching conditions that any parent could imagine.

I don’t know that there’s ever been a human spaceflight mission that did not have some anomaly.

Obviously you’re looking out the window and you’re seeing Earth and that’s moving and then you’re in a spacecraft now that can move on all axes while you’re floating inside it and I think, for some people, maybe the combination of all three is a little bit of a sensory overload.

It was a real business. And actually from a taxpayer’s perspective, every taxpayer should want more Drakens. We were able to do so much more for the government for like one-tenth the price. We need more of that, and that’s exactly what Elon is doing at SpaceX by the way.

The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the top.

If we’re going to continue making advances up there in space, then we have an obligation to do the same down here on Earth.

I’ve been a space enthusiast since I was in kindergarten.

To sign up to take credit cards 21 years ago, it was the same amount of paperwork as getting a commercial mortgage. It was very intense, it was burdensome, it was entirely unnecessary.

As someone who flew in lots of airshows in his 20s, I know what immortal feels like.

I mean, watching any rocket go up is pretty incredible, but watching a Soyuz go up is something else.

I’ve said it really from the beginning that the stars have always aligned with Inspiration4.

I’ve obviously been an aviation, space enthusiast for a long time.

If you do believe there’s going to be a world like The Jetsons,’ where everybody jumps in their rocket – very Star Wars’ or Star Trek’ – and people are exploring new planets and new worlds, then we’ve got to get the first one right.

Using the bathroom in space is hard, and you’ve got to be very – what was the word? – very kind to one another.

If you’re at Kennedy Space Center, the closest you’re going to get to a rocket going off is like three and a half miles.

We’re very aware of how lucky we are, to be part of this history that that SpaceX is creating right now.

I think any pilot with my kind of background, flying ex-military-type aircraft and experimental aircraft, would say that the pinnacle is to be able to pilot a spacecraft – there’s no question.

My 3-year-old daughter told my wife she doesn’t think I’m a pilot anymore because I don’t fly. That was crushing.

The crew of Inspiration4 is eager to use our mission to help make a better future for those who will launch in the years and decades to come.

We’ve got to go back to the space station and back to the moon and Mars and beyond, because there is a lot of space out there and we know so little about it.

There’s going to be an awful lot of people who are going to get the opportunity to go up and explore among the stars.

When I found out that Inspiration 4 was gonna be the first all-civilian mission to space, well then there’s no chance that’s going to be a bunch of fishing buddies going on a joy ride. That’s something of significance, of responsibility.

You only get so many flight hours. It’s not a whole lot of time, so it really just comes down to maximizing it while you can.

As long as Lehigh Valley Airshow is around, we’ll perform it.

I certainly like to go out and seek out interesting challenges, and I try to highlight a very worthwhile cause and make a positive impact along the way.

When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle.

I did tell my kindergarten teacher I would go to space someday, and she said she’d be watching.

Unfortunately, I don’t do as much upside-down flying as I used to.

We want to work towards a Jetsons-like world.

We own the world’s largest private air force; it’s 80 fighter jets.

The odds of becoming a NASA astronaut – you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.

Space adaptation syndrome is certainly real.

Shift4 has always been the greater portion of my time commitment.

Harbortouch’s revolutionary free POS program offers full-featured, touch-screen POS systems with no up-front costs, making it a much better solution for small and mid-sized businesses than the mobile dongles being provided by Square and Amazon.

We care about this not being a world where 600 people have gotten on orbit; we want it to be 600,000.

When we’re up in orbit, the first thing we will be excited to do is reveal what our zero-G indicator is and how that connects back to our overall mission. That’s gonna be the first way we celebrate being in space.

I didn’t want to be just a weekend warrior and go up and fly every now and then.

I’ve been fortunate throughout many moments in my career, and whether that was traveling to Antarctica just a year ago on a mountain-climbing expedition or flying in air shows or world-record flights. These are all significant moments that I try to reflect on.

The mobile solutions offered by companies such as Square, and now Amazon, may seem tempting for merchants due to the low cost, but these solutions simply do not have the functionality or reporting capabilities that real businesses need.

I drank the Kool-Aid in terms of the grand ambitions for humankind being a multiplanet species, and I think that we all want to live in a Star Wars,’ Star Trek’ world where people are jumping in their spacecraft.

We put in hundreds of hours at SpaceX, studied over 90 different kinds of training guides and manuals and lessons to learn how to fly the fly the Dragon and what to do in emergency situations.

If you’re going to accomplish all those great things out in space, all that progress, then you have an obligation to do some considerable good here on Earth, like making sure you conquer childhood cancer along the way.

As soon as I got my business going, after a couple of years it was pretty much consuming my whole life.

In fact, Mario Parisi and my father are probably the two most inspirational figures when it comes to my growth as a company leader.

I grew up in a very middle-class background. It was a place where if you wanted something, you worked to get it.

A big part of our mission here at Inspiration4 is to inspire what can be done here in space.

My parents wanted to make sure I at least had the high school diploma, so I got a GED.

I’ve been a SpaceX fanboy for a long time.

It all starts with opportunity. You can have the smartest person that works tirelessly day and night on a business venture but if there’s no opportunity behind it, it’s going to be a pretty big, uphill battle.

I certainly get a lot of people who ask me about what it’s like at SpaceX, and have you learned from it, and are there things you’re taking away that you apply to your own business. The answer to all those is yes.

I’ve been very lucky in life; you really don’t get to a position that I’m fortunate enough to be in without the ball bouncing your way a couple times.

We set out from the start to deliver a very inspiring message, certainly what can be done up in space and the possibilities there, but also what we can accomplish here on Earth.

I started my company Harbortouch when I was 16 and that’s still my day job so I never had any break from the action to ever think about joining the military.