Category - Frederick W Smith

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Frederick W Smith

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

– Frederick W Smith

Frederick W Smith

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

Frederick W Smith

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

Frederick W Smith

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

– Frederick W Smith

Frederick W Smith

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

Frederick W Smith

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

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Frederick W Smith

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

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Frederick W Smith

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.

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Frederick W Smith

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

– Frederick W Smith

Frederick W Smith

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

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Frederick W Smith

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.

– Frederick W Smith

Frederick W Smith

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

– Frederick W Smith

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