Top 52 Boardroom Quotes
#1. What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
W. Edwards Deming
#2. It is what the "I" stands for - Information, Innovation, Insight, Improvement, or Influence, that needs to be represented by CIOs in the Boardroom.
Pearl Zhu
#3. I couldn't help myself. This woman whom I'd seen handle an entire boardroom full of cocky sons of bitches without batting an eye was crazy adorable. She was tough as nails and hotter than sin. And Christ, she was hilarious. I wanted more of her. A lot fucking more.
Max Monroe
#4. In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
Weili Dai
#5. Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.
George Zimmer
#6. The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.
Sheryl Sandberg
#7. The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
Russell Baker
#8. Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.
Robert D. Hare
#9. Truth has its place. In a courtroom, certainly. A boardroom? I don't know. I think truth is in the listener. Truth is something the listener bestows on a story
or not
J.R. Moehringer
#10. Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.
Dina Titus
#11. If you DON'T have diversity around your boardroom table, then what is wrong with you?
Rachel Sklar
#12. Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.
Sunni Brown
#13. We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.
Chelsea Clinton
#14. When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven't figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.
Drew Barrymore
#15. I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.
Daymond John
#16. While modern women take charge in the boardroom or form their own rugby teams, none have yet demanded acceptance in the world of trainspotting.
Nicholas Whittaker
#17. A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
Carly Fiorina
#18. The kingdom of God dawns in trailer parks and refugee camps. That shouldn't surprise us. The kingdom came to us not from a boardroom or a literary guild, but from a feeding trough and an execution stake.
Russell D. Moore
#19. Behind every book for young people and every global product of family entertainment, the hum of boardroom discussion about the politics of the work can be heard.
Marina Warner
#20. Finally, though, I arrived at a point where I decided this was bullshit. I stopped feeling as if I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I belonged anywhere I wanted to be - whether that was a boardroom, business class, or on
Sophia Amoruso
#21. There can be no equality in the boardroom until there is in the bedroom.
Sheryl Sandberg
#22. There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits.
James Packer
#23. You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
Stephen Fry
#24. There are conspiracy theorists who think I was crafted in a boardroom. Because I'm so very relatable and so very topical and so very Tumblr.
Halsey
#25. Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.
Vernon Jordan
#26. We'll see She-Hulk fighting evil everywhere from the boardroom to the Bowery, using her mind as much as her fists.
Charles Soule
#27. Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard
#28. From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.
Ryan Holmes
#29. Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.
Barbara Coloroso
#30. Yes, damn it, I love you! But the bedroom is not the boardroom, Robert. In the boardroom only one person can be in charge.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#31. Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
Alan Kay
#33. Corporate brand, culture, knowledge, and risk management are all boardroom concerns.
Pearl Zhu
#34. We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.
Uday Kotak
#35. I had the blessing of opportunity. You need the folks in the boardroom who have consciences and the people in the streets who can picket at the right time.
Julian Castro
#36. From the boardroom to the bedroom, we're connected 24/7, yet loneliness is at an all-time high. More people are reaching for mobile devices than for the hand of someone in need. Where did our humanity go?
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
#37. The Boardroom Paradox: Harden the softest like culture, and soften the hardest like number.
Pearl Zhu
#38. It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.
Charlie Kimball
#39. The moment when I can see a student's block, name the challenge and watch them become fuller and more dynamic in front of their colleagues' eyes is as rich a moment in a boardroom as it is in a ring.
Jeff Raz
#40. I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.
Jesse Ventura
#42. This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.
John Viney
#43. Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
Nathan Myhrvold
#44. Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
Henry Ford
#45. Find your own authentic leadership style; your own unique way of listening to, helping and engaging with your front line. Challenge the often formidable psychological distance between basement and boardroom. Your people will thank you, and so will your customers.
Chris Van Gorder
#46. There are two kinds of warriors:
those on the battlefield,
and those in the boardroom;
both are out to win.
But the age of King Alexander has gone,
and the age of Bill Gates has come.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#47. Thinking professionally" is the first step in building a high-performance digital Board.
Pearl Zhu
#48. GRC is about collaboration and harmony.
Pearl Zhu
#49. The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, "deep common sense," balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.
Pearl Zhu
#50. Group Thinking" or lack of courage to ask the tough and strategic questions is the chief weakness on Boards today.
Pearl Zhu
#51. Governance is not about maximization, but about optimization.
Pearl Zhu
#52. The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process.
Pearl Zhu
