Herb Kelleher
Herb Kelleher
Herbert "Herb" David Kelleheris the co-founder, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of Southwest Airlines...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 March 1931
CountryUnited States of America
Herb Kelleher quotes about
steel nerves neurotic
It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.
dream taken airplane
The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.
pain ass infringement
The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.
successful helping-others people
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
practice people personality
People with different personalities, different approaches, different values succeed not because one set of values or priorities is superior but because their values and practices are genuine.
jobs mean substance
Positions and titles mean absolutely nothing. They're just adornments; they don't represent the substance of anybody. Every person and every job is worth as much as any other person and any other job.
practice trying imagine
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.
texas nuts people
Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion.
leadership people treats
If you don't treat your own people well, they won't treat other people well.
leader followers excellent
To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower,
business fly incidental
I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
airlines spirit
The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it's caring, it's dedicated, it's diligent, it's fun, it's rewarding, it's a joy.
airlines business fear guess worst
I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn't get off the ground.
anyone apart blown difference family mundane perhaps start war
I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II.