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
four release threatened
You'd have thought we threatened to release the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
airline-business green way
If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.
leadership stronger company
A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
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Treat your employees like customers.
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I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.
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You have to treat your employees like customers
life-lesson scared life-death
I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.
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.
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.
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.