American - Businessman | August 11, 1944 -
Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.
Frederick W. Smith
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Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'
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The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.
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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.
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I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.
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The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.
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Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
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A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.
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