Explore popular quotes and sayings by William Schreyer.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
William Allen Schreyer was chairman emeritus and former CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co., where he worked for 45 years total, eight of them as chairman and CEO. He was also a noted philanthropist and served as former president of Pennsylvania State University's Board of Trustees.
The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.
As I always say, 'Not always right, but never in doubt.'
How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.
I have no regrets about anything that I've ever done, about whom I've been involved with, so forth and so on.
That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.