These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

- C. R. Smith

A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.

- C. R. Smith

We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.

- C. R. Smith

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

- C. R. Smith

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

- C. R. Smith