Walter Wriston
United States
3 Aug 1919 // 19 Jan 2005
Banker
3 Aug 1919 // 19 Jan 2005
Banker
Information about money has become almost as important as money itself. The competitive advantage of the banks used to be that they knew more about their customers than anyone else. Now... that knowledge can be had at the push of a button. The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.
Quoted in The Financial Revolution The Big Bang Worldwide (1986)
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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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