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

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

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

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

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

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.

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.