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

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

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

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.

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.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

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.