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

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

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

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

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

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

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.