40 Quotes by Frederick W. Smith

It's become increasingly difficult to find places with the proper size and other characteristics.

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

In the near-term, there are economic concerns but overall we see continued improvements in the global economy.

Gary's leadership transformed FedEx Kinko's into a global network offering the industry's broadest range of business services and helped change the way business is done in the digital age. I have the utmost confidence that Ken will take FedEx Kinko's to new heights by building on this outstanding record of innovation and service to our customers.

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.

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.

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.

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