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.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

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

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

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.

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.