If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.

- Alfred Kahn

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

- Alfred Kahn

Pan Am can go to hell.

- Alfred Kahn

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

- Alfred Kahn

Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.

- Alfred Kahn

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

- Alfred Kahn

People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudes…

- Alfred Kahn