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Herb Kelleher


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Think and act big and grow smaller, or think and act small and grow bigger.

Herb Kelleher

CEO Southwest Airlines.

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

Herb Kelleher

CEO Southwest Airlines.

You [the employees] are involved in a crusade.

Herb Kelleher

CEO Southwest Airlines.

We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.

Herb Kelleher

CEO Southwest Airlines.

That place runs on Herb Kelleher’s bullshit.

Robert W. Baker

VP American Airlines, regards Southwest Airlines. Quoted in 1995 book Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos.

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If the employees come first, then they are happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.

Herb Kelleher

Southwest Airlines CEO, quoted in A Conversation with , Organizational Dynamics, volume 23, issue 2, Autumn 1994.

The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.

Herb Kelleher

CEO Southwest Airlines. Quoted in Is America’s Best CEO? Behind his clowning is a people-wise manager who wins where others can’t, Fortune magazine, 2 May 1994.

I’m here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I’ve never had a really serious venereal disease.

Herb Kelleher

In a Wings Club speech in New York. Quoted in Is America’s Best CEO? Behind his clowning is a people-wise manager who wins where others can’t, Fortune magazine, 2 May 1994.

If the Wright brothers were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

Herb Kelleher

Southwest Airlines, USA Today newspaper, 8 June 1994.

Regulatory non-compliance and being unsafe are two different things.

Herb Kelleher

Executive chairman of Southwest Airlines, immediately before a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on FAA safety enforcement held following that airline’s record $10.2 million dollar fine. The New York Times, 3 April 2008. .


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