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'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.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

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

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

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

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.