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.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

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

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

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.

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

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