Sandy Weill Quotes
100 Sandy Weill Quotes (Sandford I Weill Quotes, Citigroup Quotes)
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I had good fortune in finding partners who were also renegades, who came from environments that were bureaucracies and not meritocracies.
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Gut instincts are made; they’re not inborn.
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It’s good to be contrarian.
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I’ve had a penchant for buying companies with top-quality brands and rarely minded adopting a more prestigious name for our company. Our corporate identity changed many times over the years as we ‘rented’ one moniker after another before latching on to the next superior brand.
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[On Citigroup as chairman in 2000] Few companies that have led the world in earnings would be described as a work in progress. The fact is, we are.
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[On building Citigroup] The company resembled no other financial institution in the world with its global reach, extensive products, and diversified distribution capabilities. We had broken every mold in conceiving this great company.
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I wanted to shine and not end up as Humpty Dumpty.
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Don’t dwell on defeat.
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Success comes one step at a time.
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Rationalize what you want, but don’t fool yourself.
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Taken together, healthy instincts, a contrarian bent, the capacity to act swiftly, and a strong and cohesive team all represent a potent combination that any business leader should take to heart.
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Moving contrary to the crowd… helps enormously in business.
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Leaders who amass data, process information efficiently, and have the guts to move quickly gain competitive advantage.
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Win when others lose.
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Learn together and fight together.
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Let your insecurities work for you.
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Be brave but vulnerable.
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Losing can be a good thing.
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Be a pragmatic dreamer.
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Not-for-profit institutions offer a great personal return on investment.
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[On doing deals] Let’s not waste a lot of time and let’s get the thing done.
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You can’t stop looking ahead, thinking a little bit about doing something differently.
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You’ve got to look at something as a building block for the future. Not the end in itself, but as a way to create a new future.
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I don’t view anything we have done, any acquisition, any achievement, as an end, only as a building block for the future. We always get to a point and throw the rope out a little further and then throw it out a little further again. You can’t stop doing that.
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I tried harder because of the discipline and competition.
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I remember thinking that if I had $10,000, I could buy all the stocks that I’d ever want to buy.
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[On Citigroup as chairman in 2000] Our core competency is acquisitions.
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I’ve had plenty of failed merger negotiations and have made my share of mistakes over the years, but there’s one thing I learned early: Don’t dwell on defeat. Usually, a better deal has a way of coming along.
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Always being prepared for the next deal had explained much of my success over the years…
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We have to give everybody more stock. They have to have more fun around here.
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[On his evolution as a businessman] My original interest was retail when we started the company, retail customers. But then it broadened out into doing research and then it broadened out into doing investment banking. Then it broadened out into trying to build the company rather than just working on deals for other clients.
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[On being third in the line to the CEO - A] Deputy dog.
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[On the relationship between himself and John Reed at the end] It was very tense. I think we tried to make it less tense, but obviously it was tense and nobody knew what was going to happen.
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One of the directors asked John to go in and then one of them asked me to go int and they asked me some questions. It was obviously a very emotional time and John was a perfect gentleman. He was extremely cooperative, a great gentleman.
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I’m a lot happier with John [Reed] in the organization than not.
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I don’t view anything we have done, any acquisition, any achievement, as an end, only as a building block for the future. We always get to a point and throw the rope out a little further and then throw it out a little further again. You can’t stop doing that. You can’t stop looking ahead, thinking a little bit about doing something differently. You’ve got to look at something as a building block for the future. Not the end in itself, but as a way to create a new future.
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[On his name Sanford I. Weill not having any actual name for the ‘I’] How did it happen? Maybe the same way it happened to Harry S. Truman. My mother wanted to name me after somebody whose name started with an ‘I’, but she couldn’t think of a name she liked. So she gave me the initial with the idea that after I was 21 I could choose whatever middle name I wanted.
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[On attending the Peekskill Military Academy] The academy was great for me. The discipline was important and the success I had there did give me a lot of confidence.
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[On deciding on Cornell over Harvard when he had decided to study engineering in 1951] It had an engineering school and Harvard didn’t.
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I didn’t know that savings banks didn’t allow you to write checks. That’s how much I knew.
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