The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.

MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards who needs a kick up the backside, but no one can bring themselves to admit it.

It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other.

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

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

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.