“In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle;...” — Chris Hadfield Quote

In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.'

My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

I don't like the way the E.U. leaders are trying to punish us or the language of divorce. It's a business partnership, not a marriage. If something is not working well, you should be free to leave it.

Once America's CEOs get back to the business of growing their companies rather than growing their share prices, shareholder value will take care of itself, and all Americans will share in the higher wages and other benefits of a renewed era of economic growth.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.