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Risk is not a dirty word.
— Walter Wriston
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
— Douglas Alexander
One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.
— Walter Wriston
The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
— Walter Wriston
Banking is a branch of the information business.
— Walter Wriston
Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.
— Walter Wriston
Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.
— Henry Wriston
As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.
— Walter Wriston
Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
— Walter Wriston
A country does not go bankrupt.
— Walter Wriston
The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.
— Henry Wriston
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
— Walter Wriston
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 attracted.
— Walter Wriston
If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.
— Lillian Hellman
All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
— Walter Wriston
The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
— Walter Wriston
When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?
— Walter Wriston
Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
— Walter Wriston
If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.
— Michael Gove