Governance Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

  Narendra Modi

  Order, India, Movement

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• Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

  Narendra Modi

  People, India, Development

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• Lakhs of families in the country are deprived of energy connectivity. Fruits of development will not reach the common man until energy connectivity reaches every last household of the country. In the age of globalization, we have no option but to make a quantum leap in energy production and connectivity.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Men, Age

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• The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and work out a solution for self-governance that would give all three groups a share in political power. Simultaneously, the UN should arrange for shipments of food and medicine, from the United States and other countries, as well as engineers to help rebuild the country.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Self, Medicine

  "How can America get out of Iraq?" by Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Schell, Howard Zinn, William Polk, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2004.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

  Jacques Attali

  Government, Euphemism

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the administrative system.

  Narendra Modi

  Team, Party, Essence

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• Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

  Narendra Modi

  Philosophy, Taken, Goal

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