One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.