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Frederick W. Smith
Frederick W. Smith
American Businessman
Born: Aug 11, 1944
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Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
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
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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