I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
Eddie RickenbackerWithin the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.
Eddie RickenbackerFlying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
Eddie RickenbackerAviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Eddie RickenbackerIf a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.
Eddie Rickenbacker