布雷顿森林体系的力量来源于理念的多样化，另外沃尔芬森的正直以及他不懈推行银行资金合作的努力，也为基金组织提供了资金帮助。 这一合作正在过去的十年间日益深化。
The strength of the Bretton Woods institutions lies in intellectual diversity, and the Fund benefited from Wolfensohn’s honesty, as well as from his commitment to Bank-Fund cooperation, which progressively deepened during the past decade.