My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business. — 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
