Frederick W. Smith Quotes

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• Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to…
• My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
• If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.
• Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
• I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.
• 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 in…
• 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 that…
• A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.
• 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…
• I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.
• I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.
• My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.
• The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.
• There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.
• Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten…
• 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 money…
• Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.
• The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without…
• A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.
• Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

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