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.

I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.

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.

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.

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

If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.

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.