Top 34 Tony Fernandes Quotes
#1. Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.
Niall Quinn
#2. My whole life has always been about looking for that person that money can't buy in that they've got a bee in their bonnet.
Tony Fernandes
#3. I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'
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#4. 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
#5. Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.
Tony Fernandes
#6. I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
Tony Fernandes
#7. Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
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#8. The best thing I can do is tell you the truth, or at least, what I think is the truth.
Victoria Aveyard
#9. Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.
Tony Fernandes
#10. As long as we are enjoying ourselves, that's the most important thing
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#11. When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.
Tony Fernandes
#12. Believe the unbelievable. Dream the impossible. Never take 'No' for an answer!
Tony Fernandes
#13. Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.
Lee Majors
#14. If you have a great product but no one knows about it, it's history.
Tony Fernandes
#15. I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.
Michel Gondry
#16. Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.
Tony Fernandes
#17. I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.
Tony Fernandes
#18. The upstairs was hopeless: all her clothes, Dale's suits, everything belonging to the boys. And everywhere the powerful, sickening smell of ashes and water.
Darcy O'Brien
#20. I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me.
Tony Fernandes
#21. Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.
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#22. I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'
Tony Fernandes
#23. For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
Cheryl James
#24. 'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#25. In AirAsia, we consider ourselves basically a dream factory. We deliberately decided that we wanted a company where people can pursue their passion, and we wanted to make use of all the talent that we have in-house.
Tony Fernandes
#26. The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.
Tony Fernandes
#27. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.
Seth MacFarlane
#28. The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that.
Tony Fernandes
#29. I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.
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#30. I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.
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#31. Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things.
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#32. MR. MOUSTAFA
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once know as humanity... He was one of them. What more is there to say?
Wes Anderson
#33. My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.
Tony Fernandes
#34. In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house.
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