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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

Topics: Ability Achieving After Boils Bottom Common Down Efforts Ensuring Everyone Feels Goals Individual Individuals Leadership Looking Other Part People Simply Team Top Toward Your

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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.

~Frederick W. Smith

Topics: Better Get He His Manager Men Person Than Who Work

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

~Frederick W. Smith

Topics: Failure Fear Must Never Reason Something Try

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I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

~Frederick W. Smith

Topics: Afraid Miss Swing Take

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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.

~Frederick W. Smith

Topics: Better Concept Delivery Earn Feasible Fred Idea Interesting Management Must Order Overnight Paper Professor Proposing Reliable Response Service Smith Student Than University Yale

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Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

~Frederick W. Smith

Topics: About Important Information Itself Package

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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.

~Frederick W. Smith

Topics: Front Get Judge Judged Leaders Out Raising Standards Stay Themselves Which Willing

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Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

~Frederick W. Smith

Topics: Become Electricity Expensive Flexibility Fuels Give More Only Sector Switch Too Transport

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If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

~Frederick W. Smith

Topics: Creates Customers Growth Historically Increase Innovation Investment Look More Scale Wealth You

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

~Frederick W. Smith

Topics: Applying Banking Business Idea Industries Innovation Involved Taking Telecommunications Transportation

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 11th, 1944

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