Sanford I. Weill Quotes

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Sanford I. Weill

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 16, 1933

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.

Sanford I. Weill

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Sanford I. Weill

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

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

Sanford I. Weill

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.

Sanford I. Weill

I believe in giving back very strongly.

Sanford I. Weill

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

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

Sanford I. Weill

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

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

Sanford I. Weill

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

Sanford I. Weill

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.

Sanford I. Weill

I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

Sanford I. Weill

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

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

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

Sanford I. Weill

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.

Sanford I. Weill

I would say that my parents were supportive of me.

Sanford I. Weill

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

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

Sanford I. Weill