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# Overheard : Market share and Profitability
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/overheard-market-share-and-profitability/
- Published: 2019-01-20T07:21:27.000Z
- Updated: 2019-01-20T07:21:27.000Z
- Description: Herb Kelleher‘s, the iconic co-founder and long time CEO of Southwest Airlines, thoughts on profitability. He shared this with Guy Raz on his “How I built...
- Author: admin
- Tags: OverHeard, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

[Herb Kelleher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb%5FKelleher?ref=kudithipudi.org)‘s, the iconic co-founder and long time CEO of [Southwest Airlines](https://www.southwest.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org), thoughts on profitability. He shared this with [Guy Raz](https://www.npr.org/people/6597623/guy-raz?ref=kudithipudi.org) on his “How I built this” podcast.  

> If we have 4% of the market and are being profitable, that is better than having 90% of the market and being unprofitable.

The entire podcast for your listening pleasure is at [https://www.npr.org/2019/01/04/682174446/remembering-herb-kelleher](https://www.npr.org/2019/01/04/682174446/remembering-herb-kelleher?ref=kudithipudi.org)

Herb passed away on Jan 3, 2019\. RIP Herb.