Governance Quotes - Page 11

• A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Steps, India

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• Small acts can drive reforms. What appears minor can actually be vital and fundamental. Generating 20,000 MW of power attracts a lot of attention. That is important. At the same time, 20,000 MW of power can be saved through a people's movement for energy efficiency. The second is more difficult but is as important as the first. Small indeed, is beautiful.

  Narendra Modi

  Beautiful, Small Acts, People

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• First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in government so that the State delivers on the things it sets out to do.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, Focus, India

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• What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.

  Narendra Modi

  Mean, Government, India

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• We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.

  Narendra Modi

  Cutting, India, Needs

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• India is committed to strong armed forces, well-equipped with modern arms & technology!

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Technology, Arms

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• I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, Style, India

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• Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

  Steven Pinker

  Climate, Scarcity, Waste

  "Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. November 10, 2011.

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• It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

  Baldwin Spencer

  Law, Hemisphere, World

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• I am not looking for board positions, I am looking for good governance.

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

  Boards, Position, Good Governance

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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• It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Reality, Issues, People

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• The first thing I would do is create one office that controlled all of pro tennis so you had one central voice that spoke for tennis. Central governance is something that's really held the sport back and will continue to do so.

  Jim Courier

  Sports, Voice, Office

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

  Jacques Attali

  Government, Euphemism

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• Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender of last resort, no global safety net, and of course, no global democracy. In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and are therefore prone to instability, inefficiency, and weak popular legitimacy.

  Dani Rodrik

  Safety, Political, Suffering

  Dani Rodrik (2012). “The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist”, p.13, OUP Oxford

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• Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Transition, Transformation, Novel

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• This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.

  George Papandreou

  Commitment, Agree, Binding

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• A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.

  Tony Evans

  Fall, Men, Three

  Tony Evans (2012). “Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream”, p.11, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  Ursula Burns

  Powerful, Practice, Careers

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• You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.

  Eben Moglen

  Memories, Technology, Order

  "Why Free Beer Isn’t So Good if your Data are Getting Drunk: How Free as in Freedom Businesses Help Prevent the Ultimate Privacy Catastrophe". MySQL Conference, www.softwarefreedom.org. 2007.

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• I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

  Perry Christie

  Country, People, Partnership

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• Let us look at international institutions and trusts. Trusts have a certain roles and unless you define what their roles are, what is it that they control? Are they controlling the day-to-day operations? If you do that, then what is Tata Sons for? What are the operative companies for? Effectively, you need to have clarity on the roles of different players inside a structure. That is the governance framework.

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

  Son, Player, Roles

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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• Shareholder value gets lost when things are done illegally, when corporate governance is not adhered to, when cohesive action is not taken.

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

  Taken, Done, Action

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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• It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

  Kofi Annan

  Jobs, Mean, Influence

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come searching for India.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, Democracy, Demand

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• Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of the 1.25 billion people of the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Honesty, Self

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