Herb Kelleher Quotes

I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

What makes the best the best is they never actually think they're the best.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

If you're a good fighter on the street, you don't have to tell anybody that you're good at fighting. Let someone else talk about how great you are at this or that or whatever is the case. And if no one finds out then no one finds out, that's fine too. But I think leading by example is always the strongest.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.