You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

Somebody who knows what they're doing, who has a good track record, they come across as very articulate, bright and looking for a challenge - that's absolutely my kind of hire.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.

O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!