Board Member Quotes

#1. Being on a board is not just about showing up for the meetings. A board member needs to materially contribute to the success of the business.

Scott Weiss

#2. That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

Richard Lugar

#3. A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.

Sam Altman

#4. As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

Zephyr Teachout

#5. I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

Ted Danson

#6. Horace, we've had a complaint that the music was playing too loudly in the Waiting Area," one board member announced as Mr. Brutish showed them into the board room and directed them to a row of seats lining the front wall. "The soul music?" a male spirit clarified, clearly irritated.

L.R.W. Lee

#7. The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means getting more than one term sheet and doing extensive reference checking - are better off.

Scott Weiss

#8. On the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress.

John L'Heureux

#9. I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.

Donald E. Graham

#10. It had been the idea of the board members to have the party, and they were the ones who had purchased all of the food and arrived early to decorate the common room and set up. Apparently, there was some residual guilt over the problems caused by a former board member earlier in the fall. The

Kathy Butler

#11. I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

Marc Andreessen

#12. At SGI board meetings ... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

Michael Lewis

#13. A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.

Charlie Munger

#14. I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

John Barton

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

Merton Miller

#16. I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.

Danny Pino

#17. 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

#18. I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.

Rose Schneiderman

#19. I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.

Harrison Ford