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Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

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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.

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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.

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You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

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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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You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.

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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.

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We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

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I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins.

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The substitute for knowledge is money.

~Gordon Bethune

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 29th, 1941

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