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Gerard Arpey

"At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started."

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Donna Grant

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

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Donna Grant

"In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal."

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Donna Grant

"Business is the salt of life."

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Donna Grant

"Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too."

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Donna Grant

"The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave."

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Donna Grant

"The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die."

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Donna Grant

"One of the biggest secrets of success is delegation. Exactly the method Sir Richard Branson uses! If it helped him become a billionaire businessman then it is worth utilizing in your own life/business, etc."

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Donna Grant

"A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent."

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Donna Grant

"The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales. not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth."

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Donna Grant

"No secrecy, no business."

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Gerard Arpey
"But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets."

Service

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Gerard Arpey
"We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network."

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Gerard Arpey
"Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service."

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Gerard Arpey
"Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15."

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Gerard Arpey
"We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations."

Finance

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Gerard Arpey
"Markets that don't work we're going to step away from."

Work

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Gerard Arpey
"One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford."

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Gerard Arpey
"Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today."

Opportunity

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Gerard Arpey
"I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage."

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Gerard Arpey
"We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit."

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