Sully Sullenberger Quotes

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

As the head of security for an airline, I can't ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why we need air marshals on every flight.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.

The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that.

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

When you stop learning you stop growing.

Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.