If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.

If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

Love like every creation is your own reflections.

Either loyalty and love are same things, or loyalty is certainly a better kind of love than love.

Sometimes life gives you a little punch in the stomach... You just gotta catch your breath and keep going.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for "Running off to Canada."

Sick kids almost never go to their father's side of the bed to announce they're going to barf.

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

Go to the people Live among them Learn from them Love them Serve them Plan with them Start with what they know Build on what they have.