Top 19 Quotes by Gwynne Shotwell

The key is to join an industry that you have a passion for. If you love cars, then automotive is where you should end up.

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

From my perspective, it's really risk management to ensure that humans have the ability to go somewhere else in case there were to be some huge disaster on Earth.

SpaceX is a flat organization. Anyone gets to talk to anyone, and the best idea wins - even if it comes from an intern.

I always encourage employees to feel free to raise any issues that prevent them from getting good work done.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.

After I finished my master's degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office.

I never felt any issues whatsoever about being a woman in Tech.

I remember in third grade, I asked my mom, 'How does an engine work?' So my mom bought me a book.

There was a lot of risk taken in the Mercury and Apollo eras, and we don't take those risks anymore. We've designed the systems to eliminate risk, which makes it take forever and cost too much money.