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Frederick W. Smith
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.
Frederick W. Smith
Information about the package is as important as the package itself.
Frederick W. Smith
I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.
Frederick W. Smith
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.
Frederick W. Smith
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.
Frederick W. Smith
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
Virginia B. Smith
It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge... is to be alert to the dawnings.
Christopher H. Smith
I don't believe in putting things out there that don't have a realistic chance of passing... If you're going to do something, you do it with an eye toward the president signing the bill.
H. Allen Smith
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.