My Daughter Asked Me When She Came

At Travelers, We Were Much More Opportunistic. It Was Very Successful, But It Wasn't An Integrated Financial Services Company. We Had A Property Casualty Company, A Life Company, A Brokerage Company. We Were A Financial Conglomerate. It Wasn't A Unified, Coordinated Strategy Of Any Sort. When It Merged With Citi, That Became A Big Issue; Citi, At That Time, Wasn't Yet A Fully Integrated, Coordinated Company.

We're Trying To Win Business By Doing A Good Job For The Clients, As Opposed To, "we Think Being Big And Universal Is Just A Great, Wonderful Thing." It's Not A Morality Thing. It's A "does It Work For The Client?" Thing. Everything We Do Is Because A Client Uses Us. Everything We Do Is Because A Client Chose To Use Us Of His Own Free Volition.

The Goal Of What Japan's Central Bank Is Doing Is To Create Growth. If It Actually Creates Growth, In The Long Run, It Will Lead To Appreciation.

It's Offensive To Me To Be Called A Cost Cutter.

Now The Japanese Companies Are More Focused On That. To Have Two Independent Directors - I Think It's Good To Have Outside People Look At You And Think Of What You Could Be Doing Better. Those Are Voluntary, But Most Of The Companies Told Me They're Going To Do It. And I Think It's Good For Them To Say Our Returns On Equity, For Example, Should Be Higher. Also, I Think Some Could Be More Ambitious.