Walter Wriston
United States
3 Aug 1919 // 19 Jan 2005
Banker
3 Aug 1919 // 19 Jan 2005
Banker
Many organizations are now trying to walk under the banner of 'The Learning Organization,' realizing that knowledge is our most important product... But the only place that I've seen it is in the Army. As one colonel said, 'We realized a while ago that it's better to learn than be dead.'.
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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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