Sullenberger Quotes & Sayings

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

We all have heard about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. They act courageously or responsibly, and their efforts are described as if they opted to act that way on the spur of the moment ... I believe many people in those situations actually have made descisions years before. — Chesley B. Sullenberger

That's what we're trained to do. — Chesley Sullenberger

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives. — Chesley Sullenberger

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

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

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

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

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost. — Chesley Sullenberger

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to. — Chesley Sullenberger

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

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. — Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it. — Chesley Sullenberger

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

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

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

Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it. — Tina Brown