Walter Wriston

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

— Walter Wriston

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust…

— Walter Wriston

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers…

— Walter Wriston

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

— Walter Wriston

The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial…

— Walter Wriston

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition…

— Walter Wriston

Banking is a branch of the information business.

— Walter Wriston

There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand,…

— Walter Wriston

I walk into all these organizations, and I'm always puzzled when I realize that people still want to be there. Most people…

— Walter Wriston

Risk is not a dirty word.

— Walter Wriston

Information about money is more important than money itself.

— Walter Wriston

The greatest testimony to the human spirit that I'm witnessing now is the fact that people still come back to work, after…

— Walter Wriston

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that…

— Walter Wriston

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

— Walter Wriston

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch…

— Walter Wriston

We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes,…

— Walter Wriston

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.

— Walter Wriston

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

— Walter Wriston

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

— Walter Wriston

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

— Walter Wriston

Many organizations are now trying to walk under the banner of The Learning Organization, realizing that knowledge is our most important product…

— Walter Wriston

If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to…

— Walter Wriston

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure…

— Walter Wriston

Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and…

— Walter Wriston

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

— Walter Wriston