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You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

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Niki Lauda
Age: 70 †
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
Died: 2019
Died: May 20
Aircraft Pilot
Entrepreneur
Formula One Driver
Sporting Director
Vienna
Austria
Andreas Nikolaus Lauda
Andreas Nikolaus Niki Lauda
Nikolaus Lauda
Cope
Appreciate
Dies
Easy
Reality
Life
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You must always be faster and better than the others.
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Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
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You must always aim for further growth.
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The air travel industry moves into a new phase every five to six years.
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A race isn't won until it's over.
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From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.
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The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.
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Grey zones do not interest me at all.
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Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.
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The less you talk, the more time you have for the essential things.
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My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.
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