He had long bewailed his inability to delegate authority—“It
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- The House of Morgan - An American Banking Dynasty and the whole source · open book
He had long bewailed his inability to delegate authority—“It is my nature and I cannot help it”—and held no formal meeting of his partners until after the 1907 panic.55 Despite the scope of his vision, Pierpont was extremely attentive to details and took pride in the knowledge that he could perform any job in the bank: “I can sit down at any clerk’s desk, take up his work where he left it and go on with it.
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