Boards Quotes - Page 12

• What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable.

  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

  Social, Robust, Treats

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• It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.

  Willie Mason

  Senior, Football, Player

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• Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Risk, Quality, Rooms

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• As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Mistake, Memorable, Games

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• Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

  Warren Buffett

  Sloth, Style, Banking

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• I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

  Shaun White

  Moving, Thinking, Snowboarding

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• The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary.

  Michael O'Leary

  Two, Police, Three

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• Universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work.

  Max Muller

  Real, Origin Of Life, True Joy

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• When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

  Oscar Levant

  Friends, War, World

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• If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

  Irving Chernev

  Queens, Kings, Men

  Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books

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• It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Country, Children, Real

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• Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

  Jude Bijou

  Want, Action, Praise

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• I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.

  John Updike

  Country, Athlete, Trying

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• As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Boston, Circles, Economic

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• Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.

  Lou Gerstner

  Coffee, Two, Lunch

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• Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Business, Taken, Decision

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• Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Senior, Smart, Lines

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• The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Football, Moving, Years

  "Howard Wilkinson's LMA survey reveals depth of managers' dedication" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

  Howard Gardner

  Encouragement, Creativity, America

  "The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

  Tony Visconti

  Order, Years, Track

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• I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

  James McGreevey

  Religious, Fighting, America

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• Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father.

  Thomas Carper

  Jobs, Father, Boys

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Tom Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

  Jonathan Ames

  Children, Adventure, Games

  "This Ames is True". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  Irving Azoff

  Pay, Company, Compensation

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