Quotes by Frederick W. Smith

Frederick W. Smith

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

Bricks

Christian

Velvet

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

Goods

Reason

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 order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible.

Ideas

Order

Yale

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 out of the transportation business.

Arena

Century

Government

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

Fall

Fear

Inspirational

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

Government

Involvement

Private Sector

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

Believe

Marine

Skills

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 restricted new entry into the air cargo market.

Air

Effort

Government

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

Missing

Not Afraid

Swings

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

Growth

Innovation

Looks

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Banking

Believe

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Cartels

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Effort

Electricity

Fall

Fear

Fuel

Giving

Goal

Goods

Government

Growth

Ideas

Incentives

Innovation

Inspiration

Inspirational

Investment

Involvement

Leadership

Looks

Marine

Missing

Motivational

Not Afraid

Oil

Opec

Order

People

Private Sector

Reason

Skills

Swings

Team

Today

Trying

United States

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Quotes by Frederick W. Smith

Frederick W. Smith

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

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

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 order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible.

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 out of the transportation business.

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

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.

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 restricted new entry into the air cargo market.

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.

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