Stumpf Quotes

#1. I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

John Stumpf

#2. Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!

John G. Stumpf

#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. Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

George Carlin

#6. I don't really care that much about being a matinee idol.

Casey Affleck

#7. Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph

Munia Khan

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

John Stumpf

#13. As someone once said, we're in the world but not of the world, so we can be for the world.

C. Christopher Smith

#14. I couldn't care less about league tables. I'm more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.

John Stumpf

#15. 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

#16. If "facts" convinced people of things, no one would have sex

Glenn Hefley

#17. Every good & perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the Heavenly Lights.

Anonymous

#18. People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

John Stumpf