Quotes About Compliance

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless.

Training is for seals

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

I think that most people in the Middle East, at least 50%, believe in being sharia-compliant. If you're sharia-compliant or want to impose sharia law, the United States is the wrong place for you.

A lot would change if laws were strictly enforced. I know it's a medieval thought, but fear is what keeps us from doing wrong things, right?

At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.

Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.

When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.

I have never been on the trail of developers or contractors.

If e-wallet providers are unregulated, dubious operators will easily manage to avoid audit trails and electronic finger-prints.

When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.

People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

If you make any trades during the year, keep a record of each transaction for at least three years.

Getting in the middle of financial transactions is a regulatory minefield.

I have not flouted any rules on transfers or posting.

We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.

The public, investors and stakeholders now expect higher standards of tax compliance and more transparency from large businesses about the way they approach taxation.

Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.

Oh, that, certainly, but not only that," said Margaret. "Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.