Walter Wriston Quotes

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• All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income…
• The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we…
• Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t go away. And…
• A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a…
• Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.
• Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be…
• All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
• I walk into all these organizations, and I'm always puzzled when I realize that people still want to be there. Most people really want to…
• Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.
• Information about money is more important than money itself.
• The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
• Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
• There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political…
• Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

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