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20 quotes by Frederick W. Smith

Frederick Wallace "Fred" Smith (born August 11, 1944), is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the world.[citation needed] The company is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
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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 do the work better than he can.

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

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

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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 be judged.

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

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Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

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

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

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

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Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'

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

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

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The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia... →

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