Quotes About Boardrooms

#1. I don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible.

Kim Cattrall

#2. Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

Charlie Chaplin

#3. There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

Robert Reich

#4. To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination and my body are one.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

#5. Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms', when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

Laurie Penny

#6. My greatest hope for a future without another Deepwater Horizon disaster lies in our schools, living rooms and community centers, not in boardrooms, political chambers and big industry. If this happens again, we won't have the luxury of the unknown to shield us from answering 'Why?'

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#7. there were few things in the world more useless than an empty gun.

Evan Currie

#8. Hanging out is good historical methodology.

Jean Pfaelzer

#9. We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.

Kenneth Eade

#10. My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Michael Steele

#11. Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#12. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

Aaron Swartz

#13. To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.

George Carlin

#14. When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

Mark Richardson

#15. It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

Elizabeth David

#16. Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell

#17. You know, I once read a book about people who practiced polygamy. One man with several wives. Crazy. I was just in a room with eight very unhappy woman and I have no idea why anyone would choose that.

Kiera Cass

#18. We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#19. We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

Alfred North Whitehead

#20. Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Barack Obama

#21. The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.

Betty Dodson

#22. The future of our country is not found in our boardrooms, but in our classrooms.

Michael Milken

#23. All of us feel special inside to where we feel as if we are the best, unique, or blessed. of course this is true, our error in this thought process is we forget that all the other people and all living things are just as special as we feel about ourselve.

Jamie Foxx

#24. Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.

Ban Ki-moon

#25. You wear classic black Chanel with frightening aplomb. When you're not wearing those catastrophic muumuus.

Thea Harrison

#26. Once you've hidden something, you have to keep it hidden.

Haruki Murakami

#27. Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

Gail Sheehy

#28. More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

Joyce Maynard

#29. If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.

Barry Marshall