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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.		Thursday Sep 18, 2025
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About Frederick Wallace Smith

	Frederick Wallace Smith
	Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11, 1944), or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United States. The company is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Read More

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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.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselvesand by which they are willing to be judged.

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 paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market.

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