Fernandes Quotes & Sayings

I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes. — Tony Fernandes

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality. — Tony Fernandes

In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house. — Tony Fernandes

I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta. — Tony Fernandes

If you have a great product but no one knows about it, it's history. — Tony Fernandes

This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes — Hiro Mashima

It's your words that gave me courage. It became my light that would guide me towards the right path again. -Jellal Fernandes — Hiro Mashima

As long as we are enjoying ourselves, that's the most important thing — Tony Fernandes

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.' — Tony Fernandes

My whole life has always been about looking for that person that money can't buy in that they've got a bee in their bonnet. — Tony Fernandes

Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized. — Tony Fernandes

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular. — Oscar Fernandes

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader. — Tony Fernandes

I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it. — Tony Fernandes

However, over the years, the martial arts were separated into two schools for training, one for actual combat and the other as ritual dances that served to reinforce Manipuri cultural identity and played an important role in the physical and spiritual growth of the students who studied it. — Christopher Fernandes

Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide. — Niall Quinn

in all well-regulated communities, the conveniency of an individual must give way to public good'. — Naresh Fernandes

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?' — Tony Fernandes

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated. — George Fernandes

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich. — Tony Fernandes

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit. — Tony Fernandes

I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me. — Tony Fernandes

In AirAsia, we consider ourselves basically a dream factory. We deliberately decided that we wanted a company where people can pursue their passion, and we wanted to make use of all the talent that we have in-house. — Tony Fernandes

Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things. — Tony Fernandes

Such beautiful scarlet hair ... Why don't we call you 'Erza Scarlet'? It's the color of your hair, that way, I won't forget it!
-Jellal Fernandes — Hiro Mashima

Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi — George Fernandes

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them. — Tony Fernandes

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours. — Tony Fernandes

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion. — Oscar Fernandes

When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one. — Tony Fernandes

The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that. — Tony Fernandes

Reclaiming the sacred... is not simply a new linguistic or symbolic strategy for feminism. It goes to the heart of feminist struggles for social justice and can provide a critical foundation for social transformation. At one level, feminism becomes a means for the decolonization of the divine. At another level, the provision of spiritual strength to individuals deeply committed to social justice is more necessary than ever in a world racked by immense hatreds that feed on each other in endless cycles of retribution, always in the name of 'justice.' Finally, a spiritualization of social movements can provide a means with which to break from these cycles of retribution which perpetrate multiple and linked forms of oppression so that social movements continually find themselves appropriated by or circumscribed within the very structures they have tried wholeheartedly to resist. — Leela Fernandes

Believe the unbelievable. Dream the impossible. Never take 'No' for an answer! — Tony Fernandes

One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present. — George Fernandes

Watch your cigarette cravings in a curious, mindful way. Read CURIOSITY KILLED THE CRAVING. — Raj Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places. — Tony Fernandes

My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it. — Tony Fernandes

Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country. — Oscar Fernandes