Quotes About Compliance

Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.

Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society.

it would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.

We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

Governance is very important in NBFCs.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

I have great respect for the authorities.

What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off.

I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.

Like I've been saying the whole time I've been in the NBA: anything the coach asks me to do that I can do, I'm going to try to do. Whether it's to score the ball or guard the center, I'll do it.

If an employer decides to flout the law, it may be guilty of criminal offences and subject to serious financial liability.

People that support more gun laws tend to have the least knowledge of the laws that are already on the books.

If I'm forced to leave West Ham, it will be done according to the rules - the club will have its share of the cake.

if you are doing business in California, then California law applies no matter where the entity was formed.

It should be noted that complying with the special allocation rules and qualifying under the safe harbor provisions is a complicated area of the law. Be sure to consult with an advisor who is qualified to assist you in this arena.

If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here.

As an organization grows, layers get added, staff groups swell, rules proliferate, and compliance costs mount. Once a company hits a certain threshold of complexity—around two hundred to three hundred employees, in our experience—bureaucracy starts growing faster than the organization itself.

Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.