Walter Isaacson Quote
Proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one’s reputation. So he put himself as much as I could out of sight and gave credit for the idea to his friends. This method worked so well that I ever after practiced it on such occasions. People will eventually give you the credit, he noted, if you don’t try to claim it at the time. The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterwards be amply repaid.
Walter Isaacson
Proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one’s reputation. So he put himself as much as I could out of sight and gave credit for the idea to his friends. This method worked so well that I ever after practiced it on such occasions. People will eventually give you the credit, he noted, if you don’t try to claim it at the time. The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterwards be amply repaid.
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About Walter Isaacson
Isaacson attended Harvard University and Pembroke College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He is the co-author with Evan Thomas of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986) and the author of Pro and Con (1983), Kissinger: A Biography (1992), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), American Sketches (2009), Steve Jobs (2011), The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014), Leonardo da Vinci (2017), The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (2021) and Elon Musk (2023).
Isaacson is a professor at Tulane University and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a New York City-based financial services firm. He was vice chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversaw the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, chaired the government board that runs Voice of America, and was a member of the Defense Innovation Board.