We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants. Michael O'Leary More Quotes by Michael O'Leary More Quotes From 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 couplebirdyears We think passengers who forget to print their boarding passes should pay €60 for being so stupid. Michael O'Leary stupidpaythinking 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 warriortalkinglying I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite. Michael O'Leary disrespectfulauthoritythinking 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 suingaireurope 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 influential-personeuropeyears All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit! Michael O'Leary leprechaunflightbullshit Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?" Michael O'Leary alliancesaviationconnections If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales. Michael O'Leary drinkpilotsfall 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 environmentalnuclearclass We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them. Michael O'Leary environmentalannoyingwant The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. Michael O'Leary great-winephilosopherwine 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 visionboardstaken 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 making-lovegentlemantwo Get back to work you slacker or you're fired. Michael O'Leary slackerget-backback-to-work I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono. Michael O'Leary nobel-peace-prizescrewsshould 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 winerosetwo I'm probably just an obnoxious little bollocks. Who cares? Michael O'Leary who-carescarelittles It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other. Michael O'Leary two 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 spaincouplebeach
