Had Fred Smith followed through on his threat to jump out of a window of the Union National Bank building in downtown Little Rock in 1974, the shipping business might be very different today. But he ...

FedEx founder Fred Smith overcame childhood Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome to become a pilot and serve in the Marines. Smith was a close friend of John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee of 2008 ...

AutoZone founder Pitt Hyde held a close friendship with late FedEx founder Fred Smith for much of his life. Hyde described him as a “renaissance man" and said he was always impressed with how ...