Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team. — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment. — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills. — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers. — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?' — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector. — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC. — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia,… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal. — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
