Michael O'Leary Quotes
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Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.
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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.
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MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards who needs a kick up the backside, but no one can bring themselves to admit it.
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I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider. I probably work 50 times harder. I think I'm the most underpaid and underappreciated airline boss in Europe.
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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.
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Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.
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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.
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It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to the office. If I had my choice I wouldn't take holidays but my wife insists on time with the kids. That's enough. Prior to getting married I never took a holiday.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting.
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We think passengers who forget to print their boarding passes should pay €60 for being so stupid.
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If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.
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I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.
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The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.
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Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with as many in-flight announcements and trolleys as we can.
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I'm probably just an obnoxious little bollocks. Who cares?
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All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!
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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.
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Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
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The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.
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One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.
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We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.
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Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.
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Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.
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She's coming here with Aer Lingus.
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We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.
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Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.
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University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.
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I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.
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