Air travel Quote by Herb Kelleher Download Open image “If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.” — Herb Kelleher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Air travel Airline Airline business Airline food Airline industry Alive Aviation Brother Cost Fire Humorous Ifs Live for today Today Wright brothers
If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur. — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
“Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all… — Lawrence Goldstone Copy Share Image
Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?" — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
“It was your brother who doomed you. I have approached many humans with my story. Always, they are the cause of their own demise.… — Chelsea Abdullah Copy Share Image
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
True brothers don't let other brothers go down this path of irreparably damaging another human being as well as their own lives. — Justin Prentice Copy Share Image
“But alas! Firemen [stoking a ship] are not what they were. The gor-blimey firemen of the coal-burning days must, I think, be a diminishing… — Ommanney F. D Copy Share Image
I bet if there were death panels, its members would take Grandparents Day off. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right they will treat your outside customers right. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
As far as value is concerned, the principal reason that I moved to Texas from New Jersey many, many years ago was because I… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need a little courage too just to buck popular opinion. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
I want to see Texas remain an entrepreneurial powerhouse in the United States. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy, so they keep coming back. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune." "You'll have to risk it...and so… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground. — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The captain has just turned on the fasten-seat-belt-sign. He didn't mean to, but the joint he was smoking fell in his lap, and when… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
A century ago the Spanish flu confounded scientists and devastated whole regions, but while today's society has air travel and an enormous, heterogeneous population,… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as well as… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image