Board Directors Quotes

#1. Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

Roger Penske

#2. A decisive Board is cogitative, proactive, and supportive.

Pearl Zhu

#3. Disneyland: The happiest place on earth...
...for its Board of Directors and stockholders.

Beryl Dov

#4. The purpose of the governing body, or board of directors, is to direct and guide the organization in the right direction

Pearl Zhu

#5. The fitting BoD is less about physical strength, more about mental toughness, with fitting minds and fresh eyes.

Pearl Zhu

#6. Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

Bill Gurley

#7. The real skill is to manage and reward the people who are smarter than you in some technical area. That is why companies have a board of directors.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#8. Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.

Pearl Zhu

#9. I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

Merton Miller

#10. The ignorance about the importance of cognitive differences and the behavioral dynamics that operate within their Board is contributing to the generally poor performance of Board.

Pearl Zhu

#11. A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility.

Pearl Zhu

#12. Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.

Pearl Zhu

#13. Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance

Pearl Zhu

#14. If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

Timothy Olyphant

#15. The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.

Pearl Zhu

#16. Applying deep insight and rubber stamping are such counter-propositions.

Pearl Zhu

#17. A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation.

Pearl Zhu

#18. I realize more than ever that this ministry has been a team effort. Without the help of our prayer partners, our financial supporters, our staff, and our board of directors - this ministry and all of our dreams to spread the Good News of God's love throughout the world would not have been possible.

Billy Graham

#19. Thinking professionally" is the first step in building a high-performance digital Board.

Pearl Zhu

#20. Musk took to the Mars Society right away and joined its board of directors. He donated another $100,000 to fund a research station in the desert as well. Musk's

Ashlee Vance

#21. Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.

Pearl Zhu

#22. More often than not, a C.E.O is merely a puppet whose strings are pulled by a board of directors.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#23. I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

Mandy Patinkin

#24. Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

W. Averell Harriman

#25. Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.

Indra Nooyi

#26. Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.

Pearl Zhu

#27. In a world of well-defined problems, directors are required to exercise influence over volatility, manage uncertainty, simplify complexity, and resolve ambiguity in the 21st-century digital environment.

Pearl Zhu

#28. A wise board accumulates rational wisdom, embraces unconventional wisdom and sharpens system wisdom.

Pearl Zhu

#29. As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that you have, these friends, and you want to know what they think. In a weird way, you're making the work for them.

Robert Longo

#30. The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

David Letterman

#31. The Board's role is to pull management out of the trees to see the forest.

Pearl Zhu

#32. biggest presentation of my career to the board of directors.

Michelle Escamilla

#33. Pamela could be at the gym right now, or at the salon, or with the board of directors dealing with the business. She could be anywhere.

Traci Tyne Hilton

#34. Group Thinking" or lack of courage to ask the tough and strategic questions is the chief weakness on Boards today.

Pearl Zhu

#35. The weather seemed afraid to take a stand and clung noncommittally to some sort of road's middle; Board of Directors' weather, she thought.

Ayn Rand

#36. I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

Nelson Peltz

#37. Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#38. Back when I was looking for my next step and was researching Gannett, I was interested in who was leading the various businesses within the organization: Are there a lot of women and minorities in important, operational roles, senior management and the board of directors?

Gracia Martore

#39. A CEO is a board of directors personified.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#40. A strategic board has a view of looking ahead, an insight to look deeper, and competency to look beyond.

Pearl Zhu

#41. I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Betty Hill

#42. I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Janine Turner

#43. A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.

Dilip Shanghvi

#44. Governance as strategy . For some researchers, the central purpose of governance is strategic. It is a mechanism for ensuring that the goals and objectives of the board of directors are implemented.

Anonymous

#45. Silo builds the wall in people's minds and creates the barrier in organizations' "hearts.

Pearl Zhu

#46. A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.

Pearl Zhu