What can we learn from Fred Smith?

Below are a few lessons we can learn from Fred Smith that may interest you. Fred Smith is, by all accounts, a leader worthy of honor and admiration. Here are a few lessons we can pick up from him: Trust in your ideas and abilities as Smith believed in his term paper.

Who is Fred Smith?

Smith flew the plane from Memphis to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. The plane is now in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. (Photo Credit: Jim Reid, Mephis Press-Scimitar, The CA Files) Unlike many entrepreneurs, Fred Smith is also a hands-on manager, who directs every facet of corporate strategy.

How did Fred Smith grow up?

Fred Smith’s father died when he was only four and the boy was raised by his mother and uncles. Smith was crippled by bone disease as a small boy, but regained his health by age ten, before becoming an excellent football player and learning to fly at age fifteen. He had a great interest in flying and became an amateur pilot as a teenager.