Frederick W. Smith

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

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.

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.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

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