Albert Ueltschi Quotes

101 Albert Ueltschi Quotes

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[On Orbis] Our doctors are teaching doctors.
Albert Ueltschi

[On the goal of Orbis] We want to eliminate blindness as much as possible.
Albert Ueltschi

Smoking causes cancer – you don’t smoke. Why do people continue to smoke?
Albert Ueltschi

I’ve learnt a lot from other people.
Albert Ueltschi

When you’re the captain of the airplane and you go back to the men’s room and you have a stroke back there – you’d better be sure that the co-pilot can bring back everybody home safely.
Albert Ueltschi

[At age 95 as Chairman of FlightSafety International] I still run the company, don’t worry about that. We’ve got a team there. People work as a team.
Albert Ueltschi

You have to get an education. Don’t do it like I did it – I’m a [college] dropout. Bill Gates and I are failures.
Albert Ueltschi

[On really only wanting to teach professionals how to fly.] I don’t want to teach people how to fly just to fly.
Albert Ueltschi

If you want to be a professional, you have to be honest, you have to have integrity, you have to have discipline.
Albert Ueltschi

You want to be the president of the company – you’ve got to be a leader.
Albert Ueltschi



You have to be loyal, you have to be enthusiastic.
Albert Ueltschi

It comes down to honesty, and integrity and respect for other people.
Albert Ueltschi

We don’t take care of our bodies, a lot of people don’t understand that.
Albert Ueltschi

[At age 95] I tell my grandchildren - Take care of that body you have, because no matter how much money you have, if you don’t have your health you have zero – forget it.
Albert Ueltschi

[On a bank manager loaning him $3,500 to buy his first airplane.] Some of those bankers are pretty good.
Albert Ueltschi

I didn’t really like university because they were lecturing about all kinds of things that I had no interest in.
Albert Ueltschi

[On being a billionaire university drop-out.] I’m a real drop-out.
Albert Ueltschi

[Even though he dropped out of university.] I’ve met a lot of smart people though.
Albert Ueltschi

I made enough money so that I could get a limited commercial license.
Albert Ueltschi

I’m a farm boy…
Albert Ueltschi



That’s what life is all about – it’s a game.
Albert Ueltschi


Bonus

[On Albert Ueltschi and FlightSafety] FlightSafety is a business that I like, run by a man I like and admire.
Warren Buffett

[On Albert Ueltschi and FlightSafety] He [Al] understood what I was about. I understood what FlightSafety was all about, and I could tell that he loved his business. The first question I always aks myself about somebody in his position is: Do they love the money or do they love the business? But with Al, the money is totally secondary. He loves the business and that’s what I need, because the day after I buy a company, if they love the money, they’re gone. If they love the business, they are there to run the company, just like before.
Warren Buffett

[On Al Ueltschi] Al deserves a book of his own. At 84, he has not lost an ounce of intensity or energy.
Warren Buffett




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