Top 23 John Stumpf Quotes
#3. It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.
John G. Stumpf
#4. I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up ... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.
John Stumpf
#5. I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
Jodi Rell
#6. When you collect bad loans ... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
John Stumpf
#7. God doesn't offer his Word as a magic fix-all pill that we can ingest and feel better. Rather, God's Word is the way in which we are invited to encounter the real 'person' of God.
Ken Gire
#8. The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public.
Oscar Wilde
#9. I can't always live my life for everybody else.
Aubrey O'Day
#10. In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk management and credit quality. It's the foundation for every other measure of success. There's almost no room for error.
John G. Stumpf
#12. I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
John Stumpf
#13. It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.
Thomas Carlyle
#15. Our dispassionate acceptance of attrition ... [can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#16. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before. I love checking accounts. I dream about them.
John Stumpf
#17. I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.
John Stumpf
#18. I couldn't care less about league tables. I'm more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.
John Stumpf
#19. I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.
John Stumpf
#20. People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.
John Stumpf
#21. Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.
John Stumpf
#22. Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?
Pablo Francisco
