Gordon Bethune Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Gordon Bethune quotes and sayings page 2 (businessman). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 27 we have.
“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.”
“I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.”
“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.”
“Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.”
“When you actually take the time to go over to somebody's office and personally thank them - whether their office is in a cockpit of an airplane, or in a break room - that's an actual manifestation of interest in them. You need to take the time to show the people around you who work for you that you're interested in them.”
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