True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.

Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.

If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.

A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.