Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Cantrell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Jim Cantrell.

Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Jim Cantrell is an American entrepreneur, mechanical engineer and road racer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Phantom Space Corporation, which seeks to build space transportation technology. After working at the French Space Agency CNES 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. He was the CEO and one of the co-founders of Vector Launch.

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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

Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

Jim Cantrell

Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.

Jim Cantrell

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

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

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

Jim Cantrell

We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

Jim Cantrell

The most sincere form of flattery is money.

Jim Cantrell

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

Jim Cantrell

Arizona has a great workforce in Tucson with companies like Raytheon and Bombardier.

Jim Cantrell