Walter Wriston Quotes

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

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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

Randall Munroe
- People
- Long
- Doing
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

Aasif Mandvi
- Never
- Matter
- View
Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

Jack Keane
- Country
- Inside
- Capable
I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

Salma Hayek
- Up
- Time
- Kids
You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.

Rachel Keller
I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

Sam Phillips
- People
- Up
- Believe