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> [The key to success, is to think things through and then follow through.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/the-key-to-success-is-to-think-things-through-and-then-follow-through/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

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## More by Eddie Rickenbacker

> [In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/in-this-business-you-find-the-enemy-then-go-after-and-destroy-him/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/the-better-i-shoot-the-less-i-have-to-maneuver/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/i-would-rather-have-a-million-friends-than-a-million-dollars/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/the-experienced-fighting-pilot-does-not-take-unnecessary-risks-his/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/think-positively-and-masterfully-with-confidence-and-faith-and-life/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/some-friends-are-better-shots-than-are-casual-enemies/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/the-obviously-inexperienced-pilot-is-the-game-the-scientific-air/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/when-i-look-up-and-see-the-sun-shining-on-the-patch-of-white-clouds/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/sports-of-every-sort-had-always-appealed-to-me/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/the-sensation-of-dying-is-sweet-sensuous-placid-it-is-the-easiest/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [“Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible."(1890-1973), American aviator”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/aviation-is-proof-that-given-the-will-we-have-the-capacity-to-achieve/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/when-i-look-up-and-see-the-sun-shining-on-the-patch-of-white-clouds-2/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/major-richard-bong-was-an-example-of-the-tragic-and-terrible-price-we/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/the-smallest-amount-of-vanity-is-fatal-in-aeroplane-fighting/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

> [I am not a labor hater.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-rickenbacker/i-am-not-a-labor-hater/)

[Eddie Rickenbacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-rickenbacker/)

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