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Frederick W. Smith Quotes
Frederick W. Smith Quotes
Frederick W. Smith
American
Businessman
Born:
Aug 11
,
1944
Better
Business
Investment
Leadership
People
Time
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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.
Frederick W. Smith
Work
Better
Men
He
His
Than
Person
Get
Manager
Who
I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.
Frederick W. Smith
Marine Corps
Believe
Corps
Could
Learned
Without
Built
Skills
Marine
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
Frederick W. Smith
Business
Innovation
Telecommunications
Taking
Idea
Involved
Industries
Banking
Transportation
Applying
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.
Frederick W. Smith
Service
Management
Better
Earn
Paper
Reliable
Response
Must
Fred
Feasible
Student
Proposing
Delivery
Idea
Concept
Smith
Yale
Overnight
Than
Order
Interesting
Professor
University
Information about the package is as important as the package itself.
Frederick W. Smith
Important
About
Itself
Information
Package
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Frederick W. Smith
Failure
Fear
Try
Must
Something
Never
Reason
If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.
Frederick W. Smith
You
Innovation
Wealth
Increase
Scale
More
Investment
Look
Historically
Customers
Creates
Growth
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 regard to time or place or quantity.
Frederick W. Smith
Buy
Time
Business
People
Internet
Our
Paper
Part
Mississippi
Quantity
Without
Always
Been
Regard
Biggest
Place
Moving
Things
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 in the United States.
Frederick W. Smith
Money
Impossible
Back
Corporations
States
Trillion
Percent
Rate
Put
Provide
Offshore
Tax
Tax Rate
Incentive
Large
United
United States
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.
Frederick W. Smith
Business
Beginning
Out
Steadily
Arena
Gotten
Governments
Century
Then
Transportation
International
Acts
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