Top 20 Chesley B Sullenberger Quotes
#1. I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.
Tim Daly
#2. You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.
Chesley Sullenberger
#3. If we're going to win this battle over fiscal responsibility, we need more of the people who vote right and fewer of those whose seniority is their only selling point.
Jason Chaffetz
#4. I met you, you were timid and frightened of everything and everyone. You made the proverbial church mouse look like a happy hooker.
Anonymous
#5. My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.
Chesley Sullenberger
#9. Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.
Tibor Fischer
#10. Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.
Chesley Sullenberger
#11. The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.
Chesley Sullenberger
#12. We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.
Chesley Sullenberger
#13. My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Chesley Sullenberger
#14. People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.
Chesley Sullenberger
#15. On January 15, I was traveling with four library books, including a copy of Just Culture, a book about safety issues. I later called my local library to apologize for leaving the books on the plane, and they agreed not to charge me for replacing them.
Chesley B. Sullenberger, III
#16. Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
Chesley Sullenberger
#17. One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.
Chesley Sullenberger
#18. I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.
Chesley Sullenberger
