Top 19 Quotes by Gwynne Shotwell

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

The key is to join an industry that you have a passion for. If you love cars, then automotive is where you should end up.

SpaceX is a flat organization. Anyone gets to talk to anyone, and the best idea wins - even if it comes from an intern.

From my perspective, it's really risk management to ensure that humans have the ability to go somewhere else in case there were to be some huge disaster on Earth.

I always encourage employees to feel free to raise any issues that prevent them from getting good work done.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.

I never felt any issues whatsoever about being a woman in Tech.

There was a lot of risk taken in the Mercury and Apollo eras, and we don't take those risks anymore. We've designed the systems to eliminate risk, which makes it take forever and cost too much money.

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.