"A man like him would not be allowed to head up a company now. He was someone who had no capacity to empathize with anyone else who had lost. He saw the Titanic as his loss, and he felt that he was suffering more than anyone else."
– Frances Wilson, author of "How to Survive the Titanic, or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay," on her book's subject, who did not go down with the ship. (To read the full interview, click here.)