David Neeleman Quotes

Surge pricing only kicks in in order to maximize the number of trips that happen and therefore reduce the number of people that are stranded.

If somebody can offer value at a cheaper price, they should. But that also means Uber should, too.

Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.

This be an empty world without the blues.

We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.

If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

I think the fact that my parents are still, "Hey, great, that's great!" and not, "We need you to do this and be a star!" - it was never like that. My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.