Southwest Airlines Herb Kelleher Quotes

#1. Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Claude McKay

#2. No, I always wanted to be an actress.

Amanda Burton

#3. 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

#4. In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

Jason Molina

#5. My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

Susie Bright

#6. Wisdom is infused into every form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. ... with somebody's lost pair of sun-glasses for only witness.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. 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

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

Herb Kelleher

#10. Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.

Demetri Martin

#11. A shift, a change of feeling, will bring with certainty a change in your future. This is the very first step in changing your destiny.

Alice Hocker

#12. You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

Sam Harris

#13. The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

Steve Martin

#14. I wasn't heading toward a future I wanted as much as I was running away from one I didn't.

Vicki Pettersson

#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