"I'm going to build an airline that makes American look like the third-rate outfit it is."

"I have never been interested in making money for money's sake."

"I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it …"

"I am my own man, and I'll go where I please and do what I please."

"I don't like to be indebted to anyone."