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Sanford I. Weill Quotes


If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.