Michael O'Leary Quotes
Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.
The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.
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.
If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.
One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.
I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.
Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.
Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.
I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.
University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.
The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.
We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.
The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe.
Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.
We think passengers who forget to print their boarding passes should pay €60 for being so stupid.
If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.
Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"
Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.
We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.
I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results.
The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.
