On Inspiring...

"Keep knocking down bureaucracy. You cannot be an effective leader unless you are prepared to go right down to understand the organisation."

"Get the best people, let them grow and find potential they don't even know they had. As soon as you start believing you are the best, you start to decline. Be humble and simple, always realise that you are only as good as tomorrow."

"Secondly, we need to always push ourselves to be innovative. If you stand still, you will enter the declining phase. You need to reinvent the whole time, to stay relevant and close to customers. Grab every opportunity, don't worry about failure. If you fail, you can try again. Failure is not trying"

Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes
(The Sun, Nov26, 09)

On Winning

“The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.

But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you!”

Robert Balboa, 2006