8 mentions across the corpus · positive 2 · negative 0 · neutral 6 · historical 0
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers]
“This episode is brought to you by FedEx. These days, the power move isn't having a big metallic credit card to drop on the check at a corporate lunch. The real power move is leveling up your business ”
Morning Session - 2017 Meeting
“it would seem to me that UPS which you have a small stake in in FedEx both of which have wider economic modes”
Morning Session - 2017 Meeting
“They actually, at present, are earning quite high returns on invested capital. I think higher than either FedEx or UPS”
Buffett on Trump vs. Clinton, Brexit, and Amazon's Bezos | May 2, 2016
“the same thing's interesting about Fred Smith of Federal Express it isn't that they've had some breakthrough”
“From all business, my favorite case on incentives is Federal Express. The heart and soul of its system-which creates the integrity of the product”
Wesco 2003 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)
“it's a logistics business like FedEx or UPS”
USC Lecture: A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom (1994)
“From all business, my favorite case on incentives is Federal Express. The heart and soul of their system - which creates the integrity of the product”
USC Lecture: A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom (1994)
“It was not obvious to Federal Express what the solution was. But maybe now, it will hereafter more often be obvious to you.”