All Frederick W. Smith Quotes
- Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to… Front
- My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business. Applying
- If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers. Continuous Learning
- Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. Failure
- I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss. Afraid
- 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… Better
- 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… Air
- A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick. 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… Ability
- I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector. Advocate
- I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps. Believe
- My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills. Corps
- The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment. Financialization
- There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC. Cartel
- 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… Acts
- 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… Corporations
- Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive. Electricity
- 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… Been
- A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal. Economy
- Information about the package is as important as the package itself. Important
- A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to… Better