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.

- Walter Wriston

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

- Walter Wriston

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law s…

- Walter Wriston

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

- Walter Wriston

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

- Walter Wriston

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.

- Walter Wriston

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

- Walter Wriston

Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go…

- Walter Wriston

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

- Walter Wriston