"Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn…" — Walter Wriston
"Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is."
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Walter Wriston
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14 Quotes by Walter Wriston
Walter Wriston has 14 quotes on this site.
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All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell…
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The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it…
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Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural…
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A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power…
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Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.
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Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be…
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All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
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I walk into all these organizations, and I'm always puzzled when I realize that people still want to be there.…
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Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.
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Information about money is more important than money itself.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow…
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There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the…
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More Crime Quotes
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
— Paul Auster
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— Honore de Balzac
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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