Eddie Rickenbacker’s advice to be respectful to one’s elders

    Eddie Rickenbacker advised:

Always be respectful to your superiors and elders as it is an acknowledgement of your capacity to appreciate the benefits acquired from experience. This was evidenced by my answer to a query recently, “What advice can you give the younger generation, based on your greatest failure?” My answer was, “Failure to evaluate and understand the advice of my elders in my youth.”(Quoted in The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 246.)

    For a brief biography of Eddie Rickenbacker, click here.