Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged..

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss..

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers..

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal..

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

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 o….

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick..

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps..

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is intere….

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something..

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to lookin….

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

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 back….

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment..

It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage al….

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills..

Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive..

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC..

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector..