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I believe in giving back very strongly.

Sanford I. Weill

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Sanford I. Weill
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 16
Banker
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Brooklyn
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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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The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.
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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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I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.
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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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I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.
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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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I think we are a product of all our experiences.
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I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.
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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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If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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