Sully Sullenberger Quotes

I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organisation is.

You can't fire anybody in Government; everyone blames the system. Look what is happening in NASA. Now we have to truck out these 200-plus audits out of the closet because we had a disaster [the Challenger], and we still can't find someone to fire.

We’ve got to get the bad operators out of business so that the good operators can be rewarded for investing in safety.

There have been some management issues with Amtrak, but I think they have cleaned up their act.

When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.

How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.

Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Efforts to approach zero risk through exhaustive pre-release testing are extremely expensive and time-consuming. New drugs are delayed in reaching those who need them, and marginal drugs may not be developed at all.

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

I'm the CEO; I'm the one who should be looking out for risk.

Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps.

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety.

Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

Safety is top priority for us, and all our drivers are fully certified; all of them are checked. Their addresses are checked. Backgrounds are checked. To whatever extent the Indian system makes it possible to check.

If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.