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

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.

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

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.

Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?"Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

God receives little thanks even for his greatest gifts.

It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.

The artist is always beginning.

Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.