“I had thought if you are CEO, it's like you're the captain of a ship. You are bound together and share your fate with the ship until she goes down, but I realised, as the ship sank, there are people who can swim it through so well ahead of others and be saved.”

“The most successful people in the workplace are those who normally really like and ‘buy-into’ their employer’s mission and vision. In other words such people like what the company wishes to achieve and where it is heading. It is akin to being on a ship and liking what the ship is doing and liking where the ship is heading. Can you imagine being on a ship and not wishing to go where it is heading?”

“Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.'

'Ship.'

'Ship… Your ship is beautiful.”

“Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.”

“If your ship hasn't come in, swim out to it.”

“Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.”

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.”

“What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.”

“If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea
Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be”

“What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn't thought he saw Peter Pan's sailing ship in the sky? I will teach you to see that ship.”