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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour." -- Dave Barry
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry. -- Maria Cantwell
You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis. -- Herb Kelleher
There aren't many people around with the stomach or the knowledge to delve into the airline industry. -- James Coulter
And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there's only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines. -- Richard Branson
These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan. -- Gerard Arpey
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.' -- Tony Fernandes
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet. -- Peter Diamandis
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline. -- Gordon Bethune

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