Smisek Quotes

#1. I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the policies of United Arab Emirates, which has done a terrific job recognizing the value of transportation, of travel.

Jeff Smisek

#2. Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

Anita Roddick

#3. I never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#4. When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Jeff Smisek

#5. If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they're proud of where they work - then they're going to deliver a good product.

Jeff Smisek

#6. People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

Herman Melville

#7. Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

Anthony Fauci

#8. Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

Tina Brown

#9. Guys like you would try to shag the button hole in a fur coat.

Poppet

#10. You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.

Jeff Smisek

#11. Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

Jack Levine