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

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

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

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

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

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

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

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 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.

We just have to live each new day as if it’s a precious gift. When I wake up in the morning I like to think that this day will be better than any day I’ve ever lived.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

I'm sorry I hurt your hand...with my face." -Bobby Pendragon

Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.