Michael O'Leary Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Sleep, Thinking, Looks

  "On the plane that lets you dial at 30,000ft" by Cahal Milmo, www.independent.co.uk. February 20, 2009.

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• I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Disrespectful, Authority

  "Tthe Shallow Spcialism Of Hating Michael O'Leary" by Brendan, www.spiked-online.com. June 25, 2010.

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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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• Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

  Michael O'Leary

  Connections, Alliances, Aviation

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• She's coming here with Aer Lingus.

  Michael O'Leary

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Lying, Warrior, Talking

  "Labour targets airlines over carbon emissions" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2007.

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• The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs!

  Michael O'Leary

  Class, Environmental, Nuclear

  "Michael O'Leary's 33 daftest quotes" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Years, Europe, Influential Person

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• We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

  Michael O'Leary

  People, Needs, Becoming

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

  Michael O'Leary

  Beach, Couple, Spain

  "The Saturday interview: Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Holiday, Kids, Two

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm probably just an obnoxious little bollocks. Who cares?

  Michael O'Leary

  Who Cares, Care, Littles

  "Is a $9 Flight Too Good to Be True" by Rick Seaney, abcnews.go.com. June 3, 2009.

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Taken, Vision, Boards

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• The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

  Michael O'Leary

  Wine, Philosopher, Great Wine

  "The Saturday interview: Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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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.

  Michael O'Leary

  Two, Making Love, Gentleman

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• I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

  Michael O'Leary

  Nobel Peace Prize, Should, Screws

  "The Saturday interview: Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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• It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other.

  Michael O'Leary

  Two

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