Michael O'Leary Quotes

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Mba, Bullshit, Lazy

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  People, Needs, Offensive

  "Ryanair puts 32% jump in profits down to being nicer" by Gwyn Topham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2014.

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

  Michael O'Leary

  Sorry, Saying Sorry, Offensive

  "Ryanair shows how much it cares" by Julia Day, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2002.

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• When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.

  Michael O'Leary

  Stupid, Numbers, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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

  Michael O'Leary

  Negative, Publicity, Aviation

  "Ryanair's Michael O'Leary: 'Short of committing murder, bad publicity sells more seats'" by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, www.campaignlive.co.uk. August 01, 2013.

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Average, Europe

  "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says he's underpaid on £1m a year" by Gwyn Topham, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2012.

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• We think passengers who forget to print their boarding passes should pay €60 for being so stupid.

  Michael O'Leary

  Stupid, Thinking, Pay

  "Ryanair boss slams 'idiot' who forgot boarding pass" by Oliver Smith, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 5, 2012.

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• Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

  Michael O'Leary

  Air, Aviation, Operations

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

  Michael O'Leary

  People, Trying, Aviation

  "Ryanair's customer service promise is subject to delays" by Patrick Collinson, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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

  Michael O'Leary

  Liars, Airline Business, Three

  "Business Focus: Into the unknown". www.thetimes.co.uk. November 20, 2005.

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• I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

  Michael O'Leary

  Fun, Apology, Firsts

  "Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary on business, fortune and family". Interview with Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2011.

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Wine, Two, Rose

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Two, Doe, Needs

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• Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

  Michael O'Leary

  Morning, People, Flight

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Personality, Cheerful, Weakness

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• We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

  Michael O'Leary

  Environmental, Want, Annoying

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• Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.

  Michael O'Leary

  Back To Work, Slacker, Get Back

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• Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

  Michael O'Leary

  Europe, Achievement, Ems

  "What happened when Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary went on Twitter for live Q&A? He crash-landed spectacularly" by Simon Calder, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2013.

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• All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!

  Michael O'Leary

  Bullshit, Flight, Leprechaun

  "'The worst job in Ireland': Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary is looking for a new assistant" by James Callery, www.independent.co.uk. November 8, 2016.

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• 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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Running, Lying, Airline Business

  "Michael O’Leary: a gift for controversy and an eye on the bottom line" by Rob Davies, www.execreview.com. September 24, 2017.

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Couple, Years, Needs

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

  Michael O'Leary

  Couple, Years, Bird

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

  Michael O'Leary

  Fall, Pilots, Drink

  "Travel Editor’s Blog: Ryanair chief calls passengers idiots" by Jim Byers, www.thestar.com. September 5, 2012.

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Air, Europe, Suing

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• The Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.

  Michael O'Leary

  Glasses, Broken, Naked

  "Michael O'Leary in his own words" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

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