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David Neeleman

"We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage."

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"We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage."

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Donna Grant

"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."

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Donna Grant

"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."

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Donna Grant

"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."

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Donna Grant

"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"

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Donna Grant

"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

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Donna Grant

"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."

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Donna Grant

"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital."

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Donna Grant

"Honest labor bears a lovely face."

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Donna Grant

"A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league."

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Donna Grant

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

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David Neeleman
"We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest."

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David Neeleman
"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate."

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David Neeleman
"I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers."

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David Neeleman
"I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money."

Money

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David Neeleman
"People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference."

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David Neeleman
"Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety."

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David Neeleman
"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."

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David Neeleman
"Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost."

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David Neeleman
"The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot."

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David Neeleman
"We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside."

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