Sanford I. Weill Quotes

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• I think we are a product of all our experiences.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Thinking, Experience, Economy

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• Details create the big picture.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Details, Economy, Attention To Detail

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• I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

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  Dream, Hard Work, Thinking

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• 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.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Income, Banking, Expenses

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• I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Respect, Believe, Mean

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

  Sanford I. Weill

  Important, Loser, Winner

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• I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Sports, School, Thinking

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• I believe in giving back very strongly.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Believe, Giving, Very Strong

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

  Sanford I. Weill

  Mistake, Economy, Willing

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• And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Mistake, Trying, Bigger

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• And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

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  Mother, Hurt, Fighting

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• From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Business, Greatness, Views

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• I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.

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  Littles, Little Things, Used

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• I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

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  Teacher, Home, School

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

  Sanford I. Weill

  People, Groups, Benefits

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• A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

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  Money, Kids, College

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason, World

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• And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

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  Business, Kind, Economy

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• 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.

  Sanford I. Weill

  People, Benefits, Our Society

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• I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Economy, Areas

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• I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

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  President, Becoming, Building

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• I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

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  Latin, Thinking, Discipline

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• Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

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  Educational, Years, Class

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• 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.

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  Mother, Business, Oil

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