Quotes About Southwest Airlines

#1. Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion.

Herb Kelleher

#2. There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'

Buzz Aldrin

#3. I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll be easy to find if that went down in the ocean. That'll be nice, when you're trying to get out and a real whale's humping your window.

Robert Schimmel

#4. A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

Conan O'Brien

#5. Life is the train, not the station.

Paulo Coelho

#6. So my wife said she read this article in a magazine and she said: You know, maybe you're suffering from premature ejaculation. Yeah, does it look like I'm suffering? Those aren't tears on your belly.

Robert Schimmel

#7. Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.

Harvey MacKay

#8. Where the stars arose, and twinkled and disappeared behind the great umbrageous trees before she went to bed.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it's caring, it's dedicated, it's diligent, it's fun, it's rewarding, it's a joy.

Herb Kelleher

#10. That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Bobby Fischer

#11. Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.

John Mackey

#12. Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

Enoch Powell

#13. I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn't get off the ground.

Herb Kelleher

#14. Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.

Bill Maher

#15. Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.

Herb Kelleher

#16. When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.

Herb Kelleher

#17. But I know a lie when I hear one.

Elizabeth Scott