Conflict Of Interest Quotes

• Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

  Jessica Savitch

  Attitude, Focus, Prejudice

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Inspiration, Incentives

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• If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Care, Conflict, Interest

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• The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.

  Thomas Nixon Carver

  Ideas, Justice, Needs

  Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press

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• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Air, Years

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• It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Band, Use

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• We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  Carl Paladino

  Government, Self, People

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• When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

  Charles Schumer

  Running, President, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Long, Gone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The president can't have a conflict of interest.

  Donald Trump

  President, Conflict, Interest

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

  Jerry Saltz

  Running, Art, Lying

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• Today everything's a conflict of interest.

  Sid Vicious

  Today, Conflict, Interest

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• Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Lying, Sacrifice

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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• Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Choices, Would Be, Financial

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• I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Would Be, Conflict

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Family, Believe, Evil Government

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects, and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which...cannot be trusted.

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Health, Birth Defects

  John Gofman's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1992.

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• I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical trials, they control the data. They analyze the data. In some cases, they even write the article. And that leads to at least the perception, if not the reality, that there's a conflict of interest.

  Catherine D. DeAngelis

  Writing, Reality, Data

  "Medical journals act to limit drug firms' influence", www.cnn.com. September 9, 2001.

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• Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Men, Views

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1928, Penguin

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• I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.

  Aaron Rose

  Directors, Done, Territory

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• The president-elect [Donald Trump] himself in the interview with "The New York Times" says there is no law that governs conflict of interest in - with the president.

  Chuck Todd

  New York, Law, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.

  Stephin Merritt

  Criticism, Say Anything, Records

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Jobs, Thinking, Media

  "The Food Industry's Influence In Nutrition Research". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

  Miles Teller

  Softball, Team, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Jobs, Sex

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