Gerard Arpey famous quotes

Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Jobs #Mean #Great Job

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Grateful #Loss #Support

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Three #Funny Travel #Century

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Thinking #Cost #Advantage

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Thinking #Flying #Popularity

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Team #Moving #Long

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Years #Aggravation #Decision

We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Financial #Obligation #Competitors

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Needs #Care #Brilliant

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.