37 Quotes by Walter Wriston

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

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.

Risk is not a dirty word.

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.

The greatest testimony to the human spirit that I'm witnessing now is the fact that people still come back to work, after all that has been done to them. They are still willing to participate for a more positive future if they would be sincerely invited.

As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.