The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.

Whether I'm at the hangar or at the airport or on an airplane, I get respect. And that's the best part of my day.