Gene Kranz Quotes

Failure is not an option!

Failiure is not an option.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

There is no achievement without risk.

I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.