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Quotes from Michael O'Leary

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
Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.
~ Michael O'Leary
Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
~ Michael O'Leary
University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.
~ Michael O'Leary
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
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
Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.
~ Michael O'Leary
The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.
~ Michael O'Leary
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
We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.
~ Michael O'Leary
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
We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.
~ Michael O'Leary
In Sussex, if it's not the Devil that makes an appearance, then it's likely to be a dragon.
~ Michael O'Leary