Harrison says his life has been a combination of hard work and luck. "Think of the breaks I got," he stresses. He adds that generous mentors such as Sulzberger and Cowles taught him early on that a good measure of a person's character is how he treats those who work for him. He says he hopes he made life better for "those I served as an editorial writer and for those who worked with me as a businessman." And then he adds, "And that I did it quietly."