Quotes from Jared Isaacman

SpaceX returned human spaceflight to the United States, and no one is close to doing that other than them.

I mean, watching any rocket go up is pretty incredible, but watching a Soyuz go up is something else.

There's going to be an awful lot of people who are going to get the opportunity to go up and explore among the stars.

Using the bathroom in space is hard, and you've got to be very - what was the word? - very kind to one another.

I've been very lucky in life; you really don't get to a position that I'm fortunate enough to be in without the ball bouncing your way a couple times.

One of the best times at a start-up is when you've got the eight people in the basement eating Chinese food and everybody kind of shares knowledge, and you share in your successes and failures together, and you learn together.

I could have just invited a bunch of my pilot buddies to go, and we would have had a great time and come back and had a bunch of cocktails. Instead, we wanted to bring in everyday people and energize everyone else around the idea of opening up spaceflight to more and more of us.

My 3-year-old daughter told my wife she doesn't think I'm a pilot anymore because I don't fly. That was crushing.

I don't play golf or have sports hobbies. Just my two businesses and my family.

SpaceX's goal to make life multiplanetary and get us to Mars and be able to stay there makes the Manhattan Project look small in comparison.

Space adaptation syndrome is certainly real.

Shift4 has always been the greater portion of my time commitment.

The founders of Draken and the senior management team all fly one of the positions in the Black Diamond jet team.

We set out from the start to deliver a very inspiring message, certainly what can be done up in space and the possibilities there, but also what we can accomplish here on Earth.

As soon as I got my business going, after a couple of years it was pretty much consuming my whole life.

I came back to Earth with a house full of COVID.

I didn't want to be just a weekend warrior and go up and fly every now and then.

The crew of Inspiration4 is eager to use our mission to help make a better future for those who will launch in the years and decades to come.

It was a real business. And actually from a taxpayer's perspective, every taxpayer should want more Drakens. We were able to do so much more for the government for like one-tenth the price. We need more of that, and that's exactly what Elon is doing at SpaceX by the way.

My parents wanted to make sure I at least had the high school diploma, so I got a GED.

I didn't really come out and expose my age.

The mobile solutions offered by companies such as Square, and now Amazon, may seem tempting for merchants due to the low cost, but these solutions simply do not have the functionality or reporting capabilities that real businesses need.

I intend to get four people in a tent that I can attest is absolutely smaller than the Dragon spacecraft, on a mountain when it's snowing out, and introduce everybody to some really stressful situations. We are all going to know each other incredibly well long before we ever strap into Dragon.

You only get so many flight hours. It's not a whole lot of time, so it really just comes down to maximizing it while you can.