Walter Wriston
Walter Wriston
Walter Bigelow Wristonwas a banker and former chairman and CEO of Citicorp. As chief executive of Citibank / Citicorpfrom 1967 to 1984, Wriston was widely regarded as the single most influential commercial banker of his time. During his tenure as CEO, the bank introduced, among other innovations, automated teller machines, interstate banking, the negotiable certificate of deposit, and "pursued the credit card business in a way that no other bank was doing at the time". With then New York Governor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth3 August 1919
CountryUnited States of America
Walter Wriston quotes about
Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.
All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.
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.
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.