Jared Isaacman

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“As long as Lehigh Valley Airshow is around, we'll perform it.”

“It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest in aviation and aerospace, and I just started flying.”

“Inspiration4 is the realization of a lifelong dream and a step towards a future in which anyone can venture out and explore the stars.”

“In a multi-day mission there is a lot of time for a lot of things to go wrong.”

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

“Someday in the future, 50, a hundred years from now, you're going to have a lunar base, you're going to probably have some sort of a Martian colony. But you have to start somewhere.”

“Our mission to space had to serve a bigger purpose, which is why St. Jude is such a big part of this. It can't simply just be about opening the door to space for everyday people.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I grew up in a very middle-class background. It was a place where if you wanted something, you worked to get it.”

“SpaceX is not going to put us up into orbital spaceflight unprepared.”

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

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

“The odds of becoming a NASA astronaut - you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.”