Michael O'Leary (businessman)

“We're bright, we're well educated, Let's get up off our backsides now and go and create something postive for our kids.”

“We're already in honk up to, above our ears. You can't continue to run these fiscal deficits. It has to be eliminated!”

“This is not the bloody potato famine. We're sending people abroad now for a couple of years. These kids will get good experience and they will come back!”

“Serious business people would never get elected in Ireland. You don't get elected in this country if you run around and tell people the truth. You've got to run round and lie to them about 'it will be all right on the night' and then they'll vote for you.”

“I don't think there's going to be ten euro flights anymore because oil prices are significantly higher as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Our average fare, which last year was 40 euros... we think that 40 euros will need to edge up to 50 euros in the next five years. There's no doubt that at the lower end of the marketplace, our really cheap promotional fares — the one euro fares, the 0.99 euro fares, even the 9.99 euro fares — I think you will not see those fares for the next number of years.”

“Ryanair is responsible for the integration of Europe by bringing lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.”

“Human factors are always very important to us. I'm often asked at these kind of lectures, 'How do you motivate your people?' And I think fear works great.”

“We charge for checked-in bags not because we want your money, we just don't want your bloody checked-in bag!”