Welcome to the world of Jared Isaacman, where innovation, entrepreneurship, and determination intersect to shape the future of space exploration and beyond. As the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, Jared Isaacman is not only a pioneer in the fintech industry but also a trailblazer in the realm of space travel. His ambitious endeavors, including funding and leading the first all-civilian mission to space, Inspiration4, have captured the imagination of millions worldwide.
Jared Isaacman’s journey epitomizes the spirit of pushing boundaries and defying limits. Through his vision and leadership, he has demonstrated that with passion, perseverance, and a relentless pursuit of excellence, the impossible becomes achievable. Whether it’s revolutionizing payment processing or democratizing access to space, Isaacman continues to inspire individuals to dream big and pursue their goals with unwavering determination.
Below, you will find a collection of insightful Jared Isaacman quotes that encapsulate his visionary mindset and entrepreneurial spirit. Feel free to utilize these quotes to inspire, motivate, or simply contemplate as you embark on your own journey of innovation and discovery.
One of the best times at a start-up is when you’ve got the eight people in the basement eating Chinese food and everybody kind of shares knowledge, and you share in your successes and failures together, and you learn together. Jared Isaacman
When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle. Jared Isaacman
Harbortouch’s revolutionary free POS program offers full-featured, touch-screen POS systems with no up-front costs, making it a much better solution for small and mid-sized businesses than the mobile dongles being provided by Square and Amazon. Jared Isaacman
I want everyone to know what it’s like to be very, very uncomfortable and to push themselves anyway. It helps build confidence when other challenges come up. Jared Isaacman
It’s just that as you grow as an organization, the challenges become bigger and the results, if you do succeed, become grander. Jared Isaacman
It sounds loud, but what you’re hearing is the turbo pumps driving at max performance. Once you’re going past the speed of sound it’s really what is on the vehicle that you’re hearing. Jared Isaacman
I just care about getting it right. That’s so important to me. Jared Isaacman
The founders of Draken and the senior management team all fly one of the positions in the Black Diamond jet team. Jared Isaacman
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. Jared Isaacman
United Bank Card, I picked that name in 1999 because it sounded like an established financial institution, and I was 16 years old in my parents’ basement, so I needed a name like that. The moment we started building our own hardware and software and had our point-of-sale capabilities by 2008, that was the last message we wanted to send. Jared Isaacman
I’ve been a SpaceX fanboy for a long time. Jared Isaacman
SpaceX’s goal to make life multiplanetary and get us to Mars and be able to stay there makes the Manhattan Project look small in comparison. Jared Isaacman
Square has already found that the micro-merchant market isn’t a profitable business, and as a result they have been trying to shift into the more lucrative small business market. Jared Isaacman
We have so much Apple influence in what we do, because we love Apple. We don’t want to use their products necessarily, but we want to think in design terms the way they do. Jared Isaacman
It all starts with opportunity. You can have the smartest person that works tirelessly day and night on a business venture but if there’s no opportunity behind it, it’s going to be a pretty big, uphill battle. Jared Isaacman
In our 14 years in business we have never launched a program that changed the face and direction of the company more significantly than our free POS initiative. Jared Isaacman
We set out from the start to deliver a very inspiring message, certainly what can be done up in space and the possibilities there, but also what we can accomplish here on Earth. Jared Isaacman
The odds of becoming a NASA astronaut – you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning. Jared Isaacman
We didn’t want to sound like an old and crusty financial institution. We wanted to sound like we were fast moving and that we had this killer technology that was also safe. Jared Isaacman
In fact, Mario Parisi and my father are probably the two most inspirational figures when it comes to my growth as a company leader. Jared Isaacman
We’ve got to go back to the space station and back to the moon and Mars and beyond, because there is a lot of space out there and we know so little about it. Jared Isaacman
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. Jared Isaacman
There’s always a risk that something goes wrong, like a structural failure. But you have confidence in the whole system and the measures that have gone into place to minimize the risk. Sometimes you land when your knees are clanking together and you say you’re lucky to be alive. But you are – and you move on. Jared Isaacman
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. Jared Isaacman
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. Jared Isaacman
Square essentially targeted consumers who were doing peer-to-peer transactions. They made it easy for personal trainers to charge their clients or for a guy to sell his golf clubs to his buddy. Jared Isaacman
St. Jude’s mission is not about rockets or space exploration, it’s about treating some of the most heart wrenching conditions that any parent could imagine. Jared Isaacman
The crew of Inspiration4 is eager to use our mission to help make a better future for those who will launch in the years and decades to come. Jared Isaacman
We own the world’s largest private air force; it’s 80 fighter jets. Jared Isaacman
Space adaptation syndrome is certainly real. Jared Isaacman
The mobile solutions offered by companies such as Square, and now Amazon, may seem tempting for merchants due to the low cost, but these solutions simply do not have the functionality or reporting capabilities that real businesses need. Jared Isaacman
We care about this not being a world where 600 people have gotten on orbit; we want it to be 600,000. Jared Isaacman
Using the bathroom in space is hard, and you’ve got to be very – what was the word? – very kind to one another. Jared Isaacman
Shift4 has always been the greater portion of my time commitment. Jared Isaacman
We’re very aware of how lucky we are, to be part of this history that that SpaceX is creating right now. Jared Isaacman
If you can run your entire business on an iPad, like a food truck, then that’s Square country. Jared Isaacman
I drank the Kool-Aid in terms of the grand ambitions for humankind being a multiplanet species, and I think that we all want to live in a Star Wars,’ Star Trek’ world where people are jumping in their spacecraft. Jared Isaacman
Our first two weeks at SpaceX, we’ve got about 3,000 pages of academic material dropped on us, and it was just kind of death by PowerPoint, over and over, until you absorb it all. Jared Isaacman
I don’t play golf or have sports hobbies. Just my two businesses and my family. Jared Isaacman
We want to work towards a Jetsons-like world. Jared Isaacman
I came back to Earth with a house full of COVID. Jared Isaacman
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. Jared Isaacman
I’ve been a space enthusiast since I was in kindergarten. Jared Isaacman
When we’re up in orbit, the first thing we will be excited to do is reveal what our zero-G indicator is and how that connects back to our overall mission. That’s gonna be the first way we celebrate being in space. Jared Isaacman
I mean, watching any rocket go up is pretty incredible, but watching a Soyuz go up is something else. Jared Isaacman
SpaceX returned human spaceflight to the United States, and no one is close to doing that other than them. Jared Isaacman
I think any pilot with my kind of background, flying ex-military-type aircraft and experimental aircraft, would say that the pinnacle is to be able to pilot a spacecraft – there’s no question. Jared Isaacman
I started my company Harbortouch when I was 16 and that’s still my day job so I never had any break from the action to ever think about joining the military. Jared Isaacman
I’ve been flying high-performance aircraft for a really long time. Jared Isaacman
At stage separation, before the second motor ignites, to me it was a huge unload. You’re practically at a zero-G event at that moment. It’s the same thing when you get on orbit, except that it never starts up again. It’s continuous. And the best way to describe that would be hanging upside down from your bed, like your head fills with blood. Jared Isaacman
A big part of our mission here at Inspiration4 is to inspire what can be done here in space. Jared Isaacman
I’ve obviously been an aviation, space enthusiast for a long time. Jared Isaacman
In a multi-day mission there is a lot of time for a lot of things to go wrong. Jared Isaacman
To sign up to take credit cards 21 years ago, it was the same amount of paperwork as getting a commercial mortgage. It was very intense, it was burdensome, it was entirely unnecessary. Jared Isaacman
I did tell my kindergarten teacher I would go to space someday, and she said she’d be watching. Jared Isaacman
I think if orbital space flight is just the exclusive domain of a couple of countries and a select few, I don’t know how far we’re gonna get. Jared Isaacman
If you’re going to accomplish all those great things out in space, all that progress, then you have an obligation to do some considerable good here on Earth, like making sure you conquer childhood cancer along the way. Jared Isaacman
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. Jared Isaacman
I truly want us to live in a world 50 or 100 years from now where people are jumping in their rockets like the Jetsons and there are families bouncing around on the moon with their kid in a spacesuit. Jared Isaacman
My 3-year-old daughter told my wife she doesn’t think I’m a pilot anymore because I don’t fly. That was crushing. Jared Isaacman
The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the top. Jared Isaacman
I intend to get four people in a tent that I can attest is absolutely smaller than the Dragon spacecraft, on a mountain when it’s snowing out, and introduce everybody to some really stressful situations. We are all going to know each other incredibly well long before we ever strap into Dragon. Jared Isaacman
Who hasn’t imagined themselves cruising around in an X-wing? Jared Isaacman
As long as Lehigh Valley Airshow is around, we’ll perform it. Jared Isaacman
Obviously you’re looking out the window and you’re seeing Earth and that’s moving and then you’re in a spacecraft now that can move on all axes while you’re floating inside it and I think, for some people, maybe the combination of all three is a little bit of a sensory overload. Jared Isaacman
I’ve been fortunate throughout many moments in my career, and whether that was traveling to Antarctica just a year ago on a mountain-climbing expedition or flying in air shows or world-record flights. These are all significant moments that I try to reflect on. Jared Isaacman
I hated high school. I watched my older siblings out in the world and they seemed to be having a much better time than me. I could not wait to be an adult. Jared Isaacman
When I found out that Inspiration 4 was gonna be the first all-civilian mission to space, well then there’s no chance that’s going to be a bunch of fishing buddies going on a joy ride. That’s something of significance, of responsibility. Jared Isaacman
I’ve said it really from the beginning that the stars have always aligned with Inspiration4. Jared Isaacman
As someone who flew in lots of airshows in his 20s, I know what immortal feels like. Jared Isaacman
As soon as I got my business going, after a couple of years it was pretty much consuming my whole life. Jared Isaacman
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. Jared Isaacman
Throughout our history we’ve had a lot of unique marketing initiatives that have led to growth. Jared Isaacman
I didn’t really come out and expose my age. Jared Isaacman
I didn’t want to be just a weekend warrior and go up and fly every now and then. Jared Isaacman
Inspiration4 is the realization of a lifelong dream and a step towards a future in which anyone can venture out and explore the stars. Jared Isaacman
I believe that history will record Inspiration4 as a pivotal moment in space exploration, as another important step towards humanity’s next great rendezvous with destiny out in space. Jared Isaacman
I’ve been a space and aviation enthusiast since as long as I can remember. Jared Isaacman
My parents wanted to make sure I at least had the high school diploma, so I got a GED. Jared Isaacman
I know how lucky I’ve been in life. Jared Isaacman
I’ve been very lucky in life; you really don’t get to a position that I’m fortunate enough to be in without the ball bouncing your way a couple times. Jared Isaacman
SpaceX is not going to put us up into orbital spaceflight unprepared. 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. Jared Isaacman
I certainly like to go out and seek out interesting challenges, and I try to highlight a very worthwhile cause and make a positive impact along the way. Jared Isaacman
If we’re going to continue making advances up there in space, then we have an obligation to do the same down here on Earth. Jared Isaacman
I believe that we do have an obligation to leave the world a better place than we found it. Jared Isaacman
Our free POS systems provide the tools that real businesses need to operate, including advanced functionality, robust back-end capabilities and cloud-based reporting. Jared Isaacman
It was a real business. And actually from a taxpayer’s perspective, every taxpayer should want more Drakens. We were able to do so much more for the government for like one-tenth the price. We need more of that, and that’s exactly what Elon is doing at SpaceX by the way. Jared Isaacman
I grew up in a very middle-class background. It was a place where if you wanted something, you worked to get it. Jared Isaacman
I certainly get a lot of people who ask me about what it’s like at SpaceX, and have you learned from it, and are there things you’re taking away that you apply to your own business. The answer to all those is yes. Jared Isaacman
When you’re flying off soft keys on a touch screen it’s a totally different feel, and a lot of muscle memory is lost. There is that delay when you look at the screen and input a command before it’s executed, versus something instantaneous when you move the stick. Jared Isaacman
I don’t know that there’s ever been a human spaceflight mission that did not have some anomaly. Jared Isaacman
If you’re at Kennedy Space Center, the closest you’re going to get to a rocket going off is like three and a half miles. Jared Isaacman
Unfortunately, I don’t do as much upside-down flying as I used to. Jared Isaacman