I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

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.

‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.

We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

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.

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.

Don’t fight with your enemy’s brains, fight with his heart

There are few things more contagious than a healthy attitude.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

The law is reason, free from passion.

When I look at all of the things that I see and all of the potential that America has, we have such tremendous potential, whether it's in business and trade, where we're doing so badly.

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what I bring instead of what I can get. What can I give?

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.