Robert Gandt > Quotes

“Naval aviation, they believed, was not inherently dangerous. Sure, there were risks, but if you were good—really good, like they were—nothing bad would happen.”
― Robert Gandt, The Twilight Warriors

“ordered him to execute this mission.  If death was”
― Robert Gandt, Shadows of War

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. ― HEROPHILUS”
― Robert Gandt, Mastery: A Mission Plan for Reclaiming a Life of Purpose, Fitness, and Achievement

“undertaking, they said, was too”
― Robert Gandt, China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats

“For some of the new airline pilots, withdrawal from the military had not been easy.  They still carried with them, like old school sweaters, the peculiar culture distinctions of their service.”
― Robert Gandt, SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am

“Pan Am was providing what amounted to a private 707 to carry the boss back and forth to Eleuthera. On most days the flight’s only purpose was to deliver Trippe’s Wall Street Journal.”
― Robert Gandt, Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am

“If nobody is happy, then it’s an equitable merger. —Maxim of airline seniority list arbitration”
― Robert Gandt, Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am

“Rubenfeld spoke no Hebrew. His mind was racing to come up with something—anything—that these wild-eyed dirt farmers would understand. He threw his arms in the air and yelled the only Yiddish words he could think of. “Gefilte fish! Gefilte fish! Shabbes! Shabbes!”
― Robert Gandt, Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel

“For half a century, Pan Am had flown the flag from Capetown to Moscow to Buenos Aires to Oslo.”
― Robert Gandt, SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am