Quotes from Jared Isaacman

Unfortunately, I don't do as much upside-down flying as I used to.

I've been flying high-performance aircraft for a really long time.

Obviously you're looking out the window and you're seeing Earth and that's moving and then you're in a spacecraft now that can move on all axes while you're floating inside it and I think, for some people, maybe the combination of all three is a little bit of a sensory overload.

When we're up in orbit, the first thing we will be excited to do is reveal what our zero-G indicator is and how that connects back to our overall mission. That's gonna be the first way we celebrate being in space.

We've got to go back to the space station and back to the moon and Mars and beyond, because there is a lot of space out there and we know so little about it.

I think if orbital space flight is just the exclusive domain of a couple of countries and a select few, I don't know how far we're gonna get.

We put in hundreds of hours at SpaceX, studied over 90 different kinds of training guides and manuals and lessons to learn how to fly the fly the Dragon and what to do in emergency situations.

If you do believe there's going to be a world like The Jetsons,' where everybody jumps in their rocket - very Star Wars' or Star Trek' - and people are exploring new planets and new worlds, then we've got to get the first one right.

The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the top.

Who hasn't imagined themselves cruising around in an X-wing?

As someone who flew in lots of airshows in his 20s, I know what immortal feels like.

I hated high school. I watched my older siblings out in the world and they seemed to be having a much better time than me. I could not wait to be an adult.

When I found out that Inspiration 4 was gonna be the first all-civilian mission to space, well then there's no chance that's going to be a bunch of fishing buddies going on a joy ride. That's something of significance, of responsibility.

In our 14 years in business we have never launched a program that changed the face and direction of the company more significantly than our free POS initiative.

Throughout our history we've had a lot of unique marketing initiatives that have led to growth.

In fact, Mario Parisi and my father are probably the two most inspirational figures when it comes to my growth as a company leader.

A big part of our mission here at Inspiration4 is to inspire what can be done here in space.

Square essentially targeted consumers who were doing peer-to-peer transactions. They made it easy for personal trainers to charge their clients or for a guy to sell his golf clubs to his buddy.

We own the world's largest private air force; it's 80 fighter jets.

I started my company Harbortouch when I was 16 and that's still my day job so I never had any break from the action to ever think about joining the military.

I've been fortunate throughout many moments in my career, and whether that was traveling to Antarctica just a year ago on a mountain-climbing expedition or flying in air shows or world-record flights. These are all significant moments that I try to reflect on.

St. Jude's mission is not about rockets or space exploration, it's about treating some of the most heart wrenching conditions that any parent could imagine.

I drank the Kool-Aid in terms of the grand ambitions for humankind being a multiplanet species, and I think that we all want to live in a Star Wars,' Star Trek' world where people are jumping in their spacecraft.

We didn't want to sound like an old and crusty financial institution. We wanted to sound like we were fast moving and that we had this killer technology that was also safe.