Jim Cantrell Quotes

United States, Entrepreneur
2000

Jim Cantrell is an American entrepreneur, mechanical engineer and road racer. He is CEO and co-founder of Vector Launch, Inc. After working at the French Space Agency CNES (Centre Nationale D’Etudes Spatiales) and the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, he worked as an independent consultant to aerospace companies for fifteen years and was on the founding teams of SpaceX and Moon Express.

Also known as Engineer, Racecar Driver, Chief Executive Officer

We started Vector with the goal of creating a development platform that would foster and bolster the micro space innovations currently underway and bring the promise of space-based technologies to a much larger pool of entrepreneurs who don't need to be space experts.

Jim Cantrell
- Space
- Promise
- Pool
Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I'm usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma.

Jim Cantrell
- Mind
- Control
- Peace

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

Jim Cantrell
- Space
Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.

Jim Cantrell
- Space
Arizona has a great workforce in Tucson with companies like Raytheon and Bombardier.

Jim Cantrell
- Great
The most sincere form of flattery is money.

Jim Cantrell
- Money
Geo-stationary orbit is actually real estate - you can only put so many satellites up there. It's like waterfront property at the beach. Everyone builds the biggest thing they can put up there.

Jim Cantrell
- Up
- Real
- Beach
We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

Jim Cantrell
- People
- Space
- Risk

I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.

Jim Cantrell
- Age
- Design
Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

Jim Cantrell
- Leadership