Airline Business Quotes

#1. The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

Michael O'Leary

#2. These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

C. R. Smith

#3. We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.

Richard Branson

#4. The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

Gordon Bethune

#5. The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.

Richard Branson

#6. I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

Richard Branson

#7. A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

Adam Thomson

#8. A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money,

Robert Crandall

#9. When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one.

Tony Fernandes

#10. Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.

Maurice Flanagan

#11. The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

Robert Crandall

#12. The airline business is crazy. I've not been enamored with the industry in general. You can't depend on anybody and anything. It's dog-eat-dog and one thing or another from one minute to the next. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see.

Robert Brooks

#13. There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

Frank Borman

#14. Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

Ed Acker

#15. I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.

Tony Fernandes

#16. Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Robert Bolt

#17. As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

Warren Buffett

#18. Like many weak men, he made a great ceremony of personal strength and power.

Tom Clancy

#19. I like to travel business or first class. I wouldn't go out of my way to pay through the nose if the particular airline had a perfectly adequate economy class - but I do like to be comfortable when traveling.

Hilary Devey

#20. I would like to have windshield wipers that do the whole windshield, please.

Demetri Martin

#21. Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people. I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks, the common American people have been killed.

Osama Bin Laden

#22. If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.

Herb Kelleher

#23. We're in the Customer Service business - we just happen to provide airline transportation.

Colleen Barrett

#24. Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

George Crabbe

#25. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#26. I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

Robert Crandall

#27. I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.

Ashley Greene

#28. When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.

David Gregory

#29. It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

Gordon Bethune

#30. We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

Herb Kelleher

#31. What we are doing to develop leaders is not working! We are treating the symptoms and ignoring the disease.

Dave Anderson

#32. The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Mary Heaton Vorse

#33. Either you will drive your life toward success, or life will drive you into the ditch.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Because we easily imagine ourselves in want, we imagine God ready to forsake us.

George MacDonald

#35. If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

Herb Kelleher

#36. The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

Michael O'Leary