Walter Wriston Quotes

It’s a Texas wrestling match with a new team against you every night.

Every line in the government’s budget has its own constituency.

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, since money is just another form of information.

Our current tendency to take our economic blood pressure every few minutes…obfuscates thought on many problems.

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.