C-Suite Quarterly - New York

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If you work hard, and stay focused, and you live the kind of life you think you should be living—which means in balance, family, work, all of that—you’re able to really do all of the things you thought about doing.

The discussion always ran through our family around the dinner table about how to make the community better, how to plan for very long term, how to understand the needs of the future, and what our plans should be today.

If I can have children have that same feeling I had when I was a six-year-old at the airshow in a communist country, that to me is worthwhile.

Charles S. Cohen

Christopher C. Martin

Steven F. Udvar-Házy

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I’m about discipline, diligence, and success. Not about gambling ... [Vanir] is something that’s been bestowed to me that I want to take really good care of.

The U.S. spends 18 percent of its GDP on healthcare. When I think of the prospect of using real estate to deliver passive prevention ... we have a real shot at influencing change on a societal level.

Just like in any business, to be successful you need to find a niche, and you need to figure out how to be very good in that niche.

Dorene C. Dominguez

Paul Scialla

Charles S. Cohen

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We’re growing, but if growth happens too quickly, you can’t manage it. There’s a size at which the culture changes. What works for 90 or 100 people won’t necessarily work for bigger companies.

We knew who we were but not how to extract it. I think of it like ... we knew how to play the instruments we just didn’t know what the album would sound like.

People ask me, ‘Where did you get your MBA?’ The flippant answer is, I got it at Shawmut, growing $100M to $1.2B in revenue over 20 years.

Steven F. Udvar-Házy

Vinny Dotolo

Les Hiscoe

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