American - Businessman | August 11, 1944 -
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.
Frederick W. Smith
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Information about the package is as important as the package itself.
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I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.
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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.
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If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.
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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.
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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.
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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
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My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
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There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.
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I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.
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My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.
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