Top 100 Quotes About Boards
#1. The Board of Trade Make Do and Mend campaign is intended to help you get the last ounce of wear out of all your clothes
Hugh Dalton
#2. A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.
Charlie Munger
#3. Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That's just fine. It's just the poor who aren't supposed to cooperate.
Noam Chomsky
#4. I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.
Steve Sabol
#5. I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.
Karen Finerman
#6. School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
Wendy Kopp
#7. [There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.
Robert Charles Wilson
#8. A study of Fortune 500 companies from research organization Catalyst found that those with the highest representation of women on their boards of directors performed significantly better than those with the lowest representation of women.
Anonymous
#9. You are a change maker and nothing should clean this notice off the boards of your heart!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. The Board must set a tone for digital leadership.
Pearl Zhu
#11. I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.
Jen Lancaster
#12. Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#13. The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management.
Pearl Zhu
#14. I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.
Grant Morrison
#15. Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.
Chris Pine
#16. Everyone (with the exception of certain school boards in the United States) now knows that the universe is not static but is expanding and that the expansion began in an incredibly hot, dense Big Bang approximately 13.72 billion years ago.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#17. A decisive Board is cogitative, proactive, and supportive.
Pearl Zhu
#18. We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.
Sheryl Sandberg
#19. Learning" and "Performance" are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance.
Pearl Zhu
#20. I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.
Eve Ensler
#21. When the coercive power of government is used to equalize incomes, it guarantees less prosperity across the board and spreads the misery, which is one of the many reasons Marxism and socialism have failed everywhere they've tried.
David Limbaugh
#22. Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and micromanaging ministers. Is there any greater job than a book you're not allowed to read, a book you could go to hell for reading?
Ann Patchett
#23. We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.
Michael D. Barnes
#24. When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.
Louis J. Mordell
#25. Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.
Tori Amos
#26. The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference.
Pearl Zhu
#27. We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.
Nick Webb
#28. Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.
Austin O'Malley
#29. The purpose of the governing body, or board of directors, is to direct and guide the organization in the right direction
Pearl Zhu
#30. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Florynce Kennedy
#31. Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .
R.S. Thomas
#32. You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!
Noel Gallagher
#33. 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
#34. I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.
James MacDonald
#35. [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.
Paul Murray Kendall
#36. Hmm, What did I love? I think all the scents. Mama's lilac trees, and the wild iris in the fields, and rain on the breeze on a hot day. Apple and pear blossoms. The hay just cut. The mix of odors in the barn when the sunlight was shafting through the cracks in the boards, heating everything up.
Jane Smiley
#37. Writing is the easiest thing in the world ... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.
Mark Twain
#38. The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.
Pearl Zhu
#39. I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences. I cross the board.
Gabriel Iglesias
#40. You never help anyone by being a sounding board for their problems or complaints.
Esther Hicks
#41. The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.
Pearl Zhu
#42. The fitting BoD is less about physical strength, more about mental toughness, with fitting minds and fresh eyes.
Pearl Zhu
#43. A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#44. I really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.
Chrissy Teigen
#45. If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats ... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.
Woodrow Wilson
#46. I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting.
Richard Branson
#47. The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinize company boards with the same merciless zeal.
Stieg Larsson
#48. The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.
Pearl Zhu
#49. And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors. I just said, "This is something to get on board with."
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
#50. The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
Sean Penn
#51. If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.
Carson Daly
#52. Then you start to see things, Lloydy-my-boy. Things you missed from the gutter. Like how the floor of the Wagon is nothing but straight pine boards, so fresh they're still bleeding sap, and if you took your shoes off you'd be sure to get a splinter.
Stephen King
#53. I have to say that I approach every project with the same energy. I also think that, since I started producing, I see the process from a different perspective, which affects the way I jump on board immediately.
Olivia Wilde
#54. During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?
Kate Millett
#55. Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance.
Pearl Zhu
#56. Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.
John Sculley
#57. He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.
Steve Wozniak
#58. [Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre.
Jon Brion
#59. The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.
George J. Mitchell
#60. Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.
Michele Bachmann
#61. The fans have access to the show and the creators, even if it's not direct. I don't know any television creators that don't follow the message boards. The feedback is so immediate, to see what is working and what isn't, and what's working better than you anticipated.
Jeff Pinkner
#62. What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened.
Richard Kind
#63. Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.
Bob Garfield
#65. It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
Alistair Cooke
#66. Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.
Jeff Henderson
#67. I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.
Pat Conroy
#68. When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home.
Ryu Murakami
#69. Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.
Preet Bharara
#70. There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
Ian MacKaye
#71. Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of "digital -flavored" cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.
Pearl Zhu
#72. If the Saints call, naturally I will consider taking their request to the Board of Supervisors. Because they're our Saints, too, and we're all in this together. But obviously, I couldn't do anything without board action.
Skip Bertman
#73. Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.
Dylan Lauren
#74. School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.
Eli Broad
#75. Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.
Pearl Zhu
#76. I've had more numbers on my back than a bingo board.
Rocky Bridges
#77. Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles.
Julia Glass
#78. In the 1980s I thrilled to the static and screech that modems made when they opened for you the weirdly magical realm of online services and bulletin boards,
Walter Isaacson
#80. The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.
Sam Altman
#81. We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came back from Berkshire's board meeting; it had moved up to the board room of the Kiewit company and [it was so large and luxurious that] I felt uncomfortable.
Charlie Munger
#82. The Democrats - Democrats on board, the Congress said tax policy.But their tax policy was pretty bad, that added $800 billion to the deficit.
Lawrence O'Donnell
#83. Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.
Tim Wynne-Jones
#84. I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent.
Mikhail Tal
#85. When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?
Voltaire
#86. So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
Ben Vereen
#87. Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.
Claire McCaskill
#88. Innovation is a mindset, and that's where governance comes in.
Pearl Zhu
#89. Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
Richard H. Davis
#90. Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
Ben Nicholson
#91. When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.
Dan Heisman
#93. A crowd began to gather round to watch the Heat begin.
They soon would learn which one would earn the famous Golden Fin!
The boards were tied to dolphin guides that pulled them like a sleigh
to what they called The Channel, every surfer's Dream Highway!
J.Z. Bingham
#94. There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.
Ruth J. Simmons
#95. For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.
Gayle Lynds
#96. I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.
Danger Mouse
#97. Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
Eli Broad
#98. Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.
Mitch Kapor
#99. A harmonic, forward-looking approach to practice governance discipline has to be put at the heart of corporate board in the digital age.
Pearl Zhu
#100. Whether it's physically having a visual of what you want to accomplish in front of you, like a running list or a vision board, or mentally visualizing and taking time to meditate, having a vision of what you are running for keeps you from running for the sake of running.
Ian Somerhalder
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