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

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• I believe in giving back very strongly.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

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

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

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

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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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• 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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Birth:	16th March, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

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