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.

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.

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.

Preaching the Gospel in a brutal way is like telling your wife that you love her while she gets a punch right in her face.

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.