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.

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.

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

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

The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.

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

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