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Details create the big picture.
Sanford I. Weill / Executive
Business
Attention To Detail
Big Picture
Details
Economy
Picture
Big
Create
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I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.
Sanford I. Weill / Executive
Kids
Economy
Little Kid
Littles
Sissy
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I believe in giving back very strongly.
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Believe
Giving
Giving Back
Very Strong
Strongly
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I think we are a product of all our experiences.
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Experience
Economy
Products
Thinking
Experiences
Product
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I would say that my parents were supportive of me.
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Economy
Parent
Supportive
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I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.
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Little Things
Littles
Used
Little Thing
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I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.
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Discipline
Latin
Logic
Thinking
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I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.
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Areas
Economy
Area
Interested
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The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.
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Economy
Financial
United States
Consolidating
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Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.
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Important
Loser
Winner
Because
How
Learn
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My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.
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New York
Florida
Moved
Parent
Grade
Ninth
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If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.
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Economy
Mistake
Willing
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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
Economy
Kind
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If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.
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Benefits
Groups
Host
People
Great People Something
Benefit
Great People Group
Travelers
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You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.
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Banking
Expenses
Income
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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.
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Believe
Past
Thinking
Best Future Believe
In The Past
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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.
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Benefits
Our Society
People
Better Chance
More People
Prosper
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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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Home
Teacher
Helpful
Mentoring
Public School
School
Term
Home Me Remember
Teachers
Public
Experiences
Room
Second
Second Term
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And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
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New York
New York City
School
Team
Tennis
City New School
Davis
Captain
Cup
Davis Cup
Junior
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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.
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Capitalist
Teach
Ages
Disney
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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.
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Business
Morning
News
Papers
Waiting
Wait
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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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Kids
Money
College
Ended
Options
Stock
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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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American Express
Becoming
Building
Merging
President
Terrific
Express
Largest
Securities
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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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Business
Good Mother
Liver
Mother
Oil
Ate
Heck
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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.
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Respect
Believe
Mean
People
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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.
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Sports
School
Thinking
Life Good Sports
Achieving
Good Relationships
Relationships
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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.
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Bigger
Mistake
Trying
Bury
Corrected
Fatal
Hide
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I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.
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War
Approach
Capitalist
Challenges
People
Wonder
World War Ii
How Many People
Meeting
World War
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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.
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Encouraging
Business
Benefits
Greatness
Point Of View
Views
Business Great Always
Stock
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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.
Sanford I. Weill / Executive
Dream
Family
Ability
American Dream
Enough
Hard
Hard Work
Persistent
Sky
Thinking
Build
Anything
American
Happen
Limit
Some
Says
Work Hard
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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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Everything Happens For A Reason
Management
Thinking
Turns
World
Time Today World
Affects
Retire
Price
Securities
Turned
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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.
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Respect
Century
Done
Excitement
Leader
Next
Offers
People
Thinking
Person
Now
Lot
Respect World People
Create
Look
Heck
Margaret
She
Thatcher
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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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Class
Educational
Years
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I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.
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Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Chairman
Educational
World Class
Board
Hall
Institution
Programs
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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.
Sanford I. Weill / Executive
Brooklyn
Fighting
Hurt
Inevitable
Mother
Streets
Good Fight Me
Beating
Postponed
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