Walter Wriston
United States
3 Aug 1919 // 19 Jan 2005
Banker
3 Aug 1919 // 19 Jan 2005
Banker
We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently; �Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises.� So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.
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