Sanford I. Weill Quotes

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

Sanford I. Weill

• Financial

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

Sanford I. Weill

• Important
• Economy
• Winner

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

• Mother
• Fighting
• Hurt

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

• Trying
• Mistake
• Bigger

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.

Sanford I. Weill

• Business
• Mother

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.

Sanford I. Weill

• People
• World
• War

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

Sanford I. Weill

• Economy
• Areas

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

Sanford I. Weill

• People
• Benefits
• Traveler

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.

Sanford I. Weill

• People
• Thinking
• Respect