William Boeing Quotes

101 William Boeing Quotes
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Hard work can lick what appear to be insurmountable difficulties.
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I think we could build a better one.
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Let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by…
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[In 1929] They will someday regard airplane travel to be as commonplace and incidental as train travel...
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I became interested in the construction as well…
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Work was begun in designing the first Boeing plane…
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Tomorrow’s airplanes today!
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There was a definite future in aviation…
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[In 1928] It is a matter of great pride and satisfaction to me to realize that within the short space of 12 years, an infant company with a personnel of less than a dozen men, has grown to be the largest plant in America, devoted solely to the manufacture of aircraft, and at the present time employing approximately 1,000 men.
William Boeing

We are embarked as pioneers upon a new science and industry in which our problems are so new and unusual that it behooves no one to dismiss any novel idea with the statement that ‘it can’t be done!’
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Our job is to keep everlastingly at research and experiment…
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I've tried to make the men around me feel… that we are embarked as pioneers…
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For our national defense, encourage aviation…
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A national or world market… This is what governs allowable production costs.
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We have already proved that science and hard work can lick what appear to be insurmountable difficulties.
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Protection Through Preparedness.
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Aeroplanes are your defense!!!!
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To adapt our laboratories to production as soon as practicable…
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We could… build it faster.
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People want to ride in airplanes more and more each day…
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We are trustees of a veritable revolution…
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I was merely desirous of learning to fly.
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I ordered for my personal use a plane known as Model TA…
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I became interested in the construction as well as the flying of aircraft.
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Less than a dozen men in all, work was begun in designing the first Boeing plane.
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Our combined factory and seaplane hangar were housed in a small building on the shores of Lake Union…
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On the shores of Lake Union… it was from there that I made the initial test flight of the first Boeing plane.
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It now behooves us to devote our energies toward the development of machines which will be used in peacetimes.
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The first logical opening will be the development of a commercial flying boat.
William Boeing

Within the short space of 12 years, an infant company with a personnel of less than a dozen men, has grown to be the largest plant in America…
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The largest plant in America… devoted solely to the manufacture of aircraft…
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We are trustees of a veritable revolution that is taking place once more in the economic, social, and political fabric with the advent of this new speed medium.
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I am retiring from active service in aircraft manufacturing and air transportation…
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To be recipient of the Daniel Guggenheim Medal is a real climax of my life.
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The past years devoted to aircraft activities have been filled with real romance…
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The many forward projects now in the making will continue to keep me on the sidelines as a keen and interested observer.
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We are embarked as pioneers…
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Our problems are so new and unusual…
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No one [is] to dismiss any novel idea with the statement that ‘it can’t be done!’
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I looked ahead to the time... when passengers would become of primary importance.
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