Quotes by Frederick Smith

• Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
• 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.
• I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.
• Information about the package is as important as the package itself.
• 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.
• My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
• 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.