E. Matthew “Whiz” Buckley: F/A-18 Hornet Fighter Pilot, TOPGUN Graduate, Producer of No Fallen Heroes

<div>In this week’s Team Never Quit Podcast, Marcus brings in a real “Top Gun” – A badass Navy fighter pilot and an incredible investment powerhouse – both the same guy – Matthew “Whiz” Buckley. You’ll have to hang on to your seat when you hear him share his real, firsthand experiences and record-setting flights in Navy fighter jets. Buckley has harnessed the principles of military strategies and applied them to investments and trading success. “Buckle up, buttercup…”</div> <br> <div><strong>In this episode you will hear:</strong></div> <ul> <li>I was raised with the belief that the American Dream was real and I could achieve anything I wanted to be as long as I applied myself, worked hard, and cared for others.</li> <li>I loved my country, the ocean and flying so I set out to become a navy fighter pilot.</li> <li>Every landing aboard the ship is graded. The mission is secondary to coming back because you’ve got 5,000 people watching you.</li> <li>I flew an acceptance flight in a new Hornet, and I did some unbelievable things with it, although I didn’t have too much time to enjoy it because all of a sudden the engines were gasping for air.</li> <li>When you’re moving that fast, all your wrinkles go away.</li> <li>At Mach 1.7 I thought, “I should be pulling out of this dive.” At that speed, I can’t eject. I’d be vaporized.</li> <li>When you make a decision, the computers go “If he does that, we’re gonna disintegrate, and we don’t want to do that.”</li> <li>We put our dog tags in our boots because in aviation accidents, that’s usually all that’s left.</li> <li>The jet’s a tattletale. It’s all electronic. Your superiors know how hard you pushed it.</li> <li>You can teach people a lot of stuff, but you can’t teach ‘em leadership.</li> <li>In a debrief, there ain’t no ”we” or ”us”. There’s only “I”.</li> <li>If you sat in a fighter pilot debrief, you’d think we hated each other. It not who’s right, it’s what’s right.</li> <li>Save the apple polishing for the bar – we’re in a debrief.</li> <li>A big leadership moment i