When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one.
From Tony Fernandes
I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'
Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.
Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.
I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.
My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.
Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things.
I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'
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