Walter Wriston

United States
3 Aug 1919 // 19 Jan 2005
Banker

If you're interested in creating sustainable growth, sustainable productivity, sustainable morale, you can't do that through autocracy. You can work the numbers for a quarter or a half a year, you can drive people to exhaustion for a few months or a couple of years. But if you haven't focused on creating capacity in the organization, it will die through those efforts.

Interview with Scott London, U.S. National Public Radio (1996)

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Human, All Too Human
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