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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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