Author: Gordon Bethune

Quotes

You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.

You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.

- Gordon Bethune

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The substitute for knowledge is money.

The substitute for knowledge is money.

- Gordon Bethune

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

- Gordon Bethune

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.

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.

- Gordon Bethune

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.

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

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