Quotes About Corporate Governance

#1. People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

Adi Godrej

#2. 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

#3. Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.

Mervyn King

#4. Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.

Shinzo Abe

#5. Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.

Pearl Zhu

#6. Good corporate governance, it's about being proper and prosper.

Toba Beta

#7. The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#8. Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

Edmund Phelps

#9. Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.

Adi Godrej

#10. On stuck status? Don't crush the groove, bust a move.

T.F. Hodge

#11. Responsibility and confidence and self-control are internal, so don't overlook the quiet guy in the corner. He might be shorter, and yet able to drop you to your knees with a low command.

Cherise Sinclair

#12. We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.

Bob Rae

#13. His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

Arundhati Roy

#14. O sweetheart and okay
Here's hopin we'll all be away
It was great fun
But it was just one a
those tings

Jack Kerouac

#15. For with God we can miss nothing. We can no more miss anything with God than God can. Accept the one way from God then, and draw all that is good into it.

Meister Eckhart

#16. Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.

Erin Beresini

#17. A good government does dirty jobs.

Toba Beta

#18. You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

Jodi Picoult

#19. We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#20. I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

Nick Lowe

#21. Corporate brand, culture, knowledge, and risk management are all boardroom concerns.

Pearl Zhu

#22. 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

#23. Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent ... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

Ben Hecht

#24. When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.

Ralph Marston

#25. It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune.

Steve Maraboli