Transportation Business Quotes by Frederick W. Smith

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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…
• 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…
• I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the…
• 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…
• 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.

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