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

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 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.

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.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

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.

Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

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

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.

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

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

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

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.

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.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

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.

I knew my boyfriend was going to ask me to marry him. And I was sure the ring was going to be exceptional, and I bought him a Rolex Explorer. And I engraved 'yes' on it. And when he proposed, I gave him the watch.

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

The tough part of having a long distance relationship is the fight. Normal people can fight and make up by talking face to face. That gets a lot more difficult in a long distance relationship.

To have a vision for your life is to see where you could be, not where you are now.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

I would love to retire a Raider, but I have earned the right to be a free agent.

In your heart I can still hear a beat for every time you kiss me. And when were apart I know how much you miss me I can feel your love for me in your heart.

I was considered one of RCA's brightest young people. Then one day, I found out we'd been sold. They didn't even consult me.

It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written songs that were never sung words that were never spoken things that were never done.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges from the things that dont work out thats when Ive really learned.

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.

Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.