Gene Kranz Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Faliure is not an option.”
-- Gene Kranz

“To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort”
-- Gene Kranz

Source : Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.393, Simon and Schuster

#Attitude Quotes #Errors Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.”
-- Gene Kranz

#Believe Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Failure is not an option.”
-- Gene Kranz

#Space Quotes #Failure Is Not An Option Quotes

“I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.”
-- Gene Kranz

Source : "Fictional character: Gene Kranz". "Apollo 13", www.imdb.com. 1995.

#Care Quotes #I Care Quotes

“We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.”
-- Gene Kranz

#Space Quotes #Watches Quotes #Hell Quotes

“I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.”
-- Gene Kranz

Source : Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

#Thinking Quotes #Tape Quotes #Should Quotes

“There is no achievement without risk.”
-- Gene Kranz

#Achievement Quotes #Risk Quotes

“There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.”
-- Gene Kranz

Source : Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

#Team Quotes #Winning Quotes #Victory Quotes

“From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.”
-- Gene Kranz

Source : "Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

#Mean Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Failiure is not an option.”
-- Gene Kranz

#Motivational Quotes #Success Quotes #Failure Quotes

“We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.”
-- Gene Kranz

Source : "Space Lifeguard: An Interview with Gene Kranz". Interview with Andrew Chaikin, web.archive.org. April 11, 2000.

#Team Quotes #Moon Quotes #Technology Quotes

“Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.”
-- Gene Kranz

Source : "The Kranz Dictum". Gene Kranz's address to his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster, January 30, 1967.

#Writing Quotes #White Quotes #Safety Quotes

“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.”
-- Gene Kranz

Source : Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

#Should Have Quotes #Safety Quotes #Design Quotes

“Failure is not an option!”
-- Gene Kranz

Source : "Gene Kranz, former flight director for NASA". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. April 11, 2000.

#Failure Quotes #Space Quotes #Failure Is Not An Option Quotes