 The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States. |
| 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. |
| Details create the big picture. |
| My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade. |
| I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be. |
| If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I was sort of a sissy as a little kid. |
| I believe in giving back very strongly. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
