Walter Wriston
United States
3 Aug 1919 // 19 Jan 2005
Banker
3 Aug 1919 // 19 Jan 2005
Banker
In organizations where people trust and believe in each other, they don't get into regulating and coercing behaviors. They don't need a policy for every mistake... people in these trusting environments respond with enormous commitment and creativity.
'Don't Get Out of the Way!,' www.mgeneral.com (1997)
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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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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays