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Gordon Bethune Quotes

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We’re a stupid industry led by stupid people,  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) You’re only as good as your dumbest competitor  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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.  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) You don’t lie to your own doctor. You don’t lie to your own attorney, and you don’t lie to your employees.  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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.  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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.  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) It’s not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) Every pilot thinks they’re the best pilot in the world. I think I’m the best pilot.  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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.  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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.  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) I’ve spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) It’s not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) It’s like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) We’re a stupid industry led by stupid people  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) The substitute for knowledge is money  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) Every pilot thinks they’re the best pilot in the world. I think I’m the best pilot  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) You don’t lie to your own doctor. You don’t lie to your own attorney, and you don’t lie to your employees  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don’t attach any relevance to which one  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) There are a lot of parallels between what we’re doing and an expensive watch. It’s very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it’s predictable and reliable  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don’t want to fix it?  (Gordon Bethune Quotes) 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  (Gordon Bethune Quotes)
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