Quotes by Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.

California

Europe

London

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you’re finished as a businessman for good.

America

Europe

Roots

Even if someone is competent, it’s so damned easy to crucify him as long as he’s only working on his father’s account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn’t changed as a result.

Challenges

Father

Long

Failures teach you more, there’s always something fundamental about them.

Fundamentals

Teach

Greek shipowners like to boast, ‘I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they’re worth ten times as much.’ It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.

Girlfriend

Greek

Ships

I didn’t want people to say: Stelios does everything on the cheap at work, and in private he lives in the lap of luxury. That’s not me. I don’t need those status symbols. I don’t need a private jet either when I can go everywhere with Easy.

Doe

Luxury

People

I have to manage and protect my brand. For the details I can always hire people who can knuckle down much better. For that I need people who are different to myself. People who compensate for my weaknesses.

Details

People

Weakness

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate’s son.

Entrepreneur

Son

Thinking

I’m sure there are managers who have had far greater financial success. But my companies such as easyJet have changed the lives of many people. We haven’t just made flights affordable for a lot of people.

Financial

Flight

People

Passengers don’t like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There’s a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn’t care where and how it’s pushed around.

Mean

Running

Stress

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Believe

California

Challenges

Details

Doe

Entrepreneur

Essence

Europe

Father

Financial

Flight

Fundamentals

Girlfriend

Grateful

Greek

Industry

London

Long

Luck

Luxury

Mean

Mixtures

Parent

People

Rags

Roles

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Running

Ships

Son

Stress

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Teach

Thinking

Two

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Weakness

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Quotes by Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you’re finished as a businessman for good.

Failures teach you more, there’s always something fundamental about them.

Greek shipowners like to boast, ‘I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they’re worth ten times as much.’ It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.

I didn’t want people to say: Stelios does everything on the cheap at work, and in private he lives in the lap of luxury. That’s not me. I don’t need those status symbols. I don’t need a private jet either when I can go everywhere with Easy.

I have to manage and protect my brand. For the details I can always hire people who can knuckle down much better. For that I need people who are different to myself. People who compensate for my weaknesses.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate’s son.

I’m sure there are managers who have had far greater financial success. But my companies such as easyJet have changed the lives of many people. We haven’t just made flights affordable for a lot of people.

Passengers don’t like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There’s a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn’t care where and how it’s pushed around.

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