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

~Chesley Sullenberger

Topics: Aviation Experience Safety Simply Substitute Terms

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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

Topics: Able Because Become Career Economic Entire Entire Career Get Grow Keep Learn Lives Most Necessity Ourselves People Reinventing Set Skill Think Through Throughout I Think

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For years, I tried to resist the hero label.

~Chesley Sullenberger

Topics: Hero Label Resist Tried Years I Tried

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When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.

~Chesley Sullenberger

Topics: After Always Aviation Before Begins Boils Congress Congressman Down Hudson James Landing Leadership Medicine Minnesota River Safety Said True

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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

Topics: Always Children Growing Invested Learning Myself Never One Of The Things Stopped Teach Things

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Pilots learn to use human skills to communicate information and make decisions collectively, which creates a shared sense of responsibility among the team for better outcomes.

~Chesley Sullenberger

Topics: Among Better Collectively Communicate Creates Decisions Human Information Learn Make Outcomes Pilots Responsibility Sense Shared Skills Team Use Which

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I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.

~Chesley Sullenberger

Topics: After Become Complete Effective Family Figures Flight Had Kid Less More Myself Now Ourselves Public Shy Speaker Teach Than Versions

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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

Topics: Credit Curiosity Her Intellectual Intellectual Curiosity Learning Lifelong Love Mother Reading Teacher

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

~Chesley Sullenberger

Topics: Better Better Off Each Each Generation Found Generation Hopes Leave Off Pilots Profession Than Will

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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

Topics: Big Deserve Forget Get Important Know Led Managing Money Often Organizations People Positions Things Think Tied Up You I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Aviator

Born: January 23rd, 1951

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