Quotes About Compliance

Some of the wisest auditors say that there are only three internal control objectives: to gain assurance for reliability of financial reporting, compliance with laws and regulations, and efficiency and effectiveness of operations. That's it. What you and John are talking about are just different slides of what is called the 'coso Cube.

When everyone is conditioned to believe that no isn't an acceptable answer, we all just became compliant order takers, blindly marching down a doomed path. I

This is all just corporate theater. I don't like it but accept it for what it is.

The opposite of the Third Ideal is someone who values process compliance and TWWADI," he says with a big smile. "You know, 'The Way We've Always Done It.' It's the huge library of rules and regulations, processes and procedures, approvals and stage gates, with new rules being added all the time to prevent the latest disaster from happening again.

Shut up, Gotlieb! I have had enough of you as well. I warned you. You are hereby reassigned to desk duty in the information-processing center. You may not participate in any war-related activities! Return to your base immediately!

Johnson! Have I committed any illegal actions?' Johnson checked his watch. 'Not within the last three minutes, sir.

Ac?iuni ilegale? f?cu Silver, întorcându-se c?tre servitorul s?u. Johnson! Am comis eu vreo ilegalitate? Johnson î?i privi ceasul. -Nu în ultimele trei minute, domnule.

This is the right thing to do, I tell myself. But I don't believe it. This is another one of my mother's crazy ideas. I feel sick to my stomach. I want to pull my hand away, but I don't. I keep walking. Good Moose. Obedient Moose. I always do what I'm supposed to do.

Reports for the bureau always got to have all the i 's dotted and the t 's crossed.

Stay with the procession or you will never catch up.

He was a father in those happy and balmy days for fathers, when they and their wishes were immediately obeyed, when they were the ostensible focal point of the family's existence and their commands were never ignored.

Those who know the least obey the best.

If you try to separate from her in any way . . ." "She will bark?" Konstantin asked. "Yes. If she barks for longer than one minute, the electronic sensor in her collar will send an alert. Cutting the collar or removing it will also trigger an alert." Matilda stared at him. "If anything happens to Rooster or her collar, I will know. I will come. I will bring friends. I hope we understand each other.

Most people will do just about anything you tell them to do, if you act with authority, give them no choice, and accept the responsibility for their actions. It's kind of scary, isn't it?

People were deferential to power. You just had to make the right noises.

Advertisement! A device for forcing the unwilling into line. Did it matter to a ground vehicle manufacturer whether a given individual felt an original or spontaneous desire for his product? If the prospect (that was the word) could be artificially persuaded or cajoled into feeling that desire and acting upon it, would that not be just as well?

The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have been carefully neutralized or locked, since it was unreasonable to expect human beings to withstand the temptation to handle knobs, keys, handles and pushbuttons.

Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics," and here they are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

they are trained from birth to accept authority.

to serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

Superego is not the same as consciousness; the former punishes us and the latter guides us. I stopped listening to the overseer inside me who demands compliance and performance with the voice of my grandfather. The race uphill is over; now I stroll calmly in the land of intuition, which has turned out to be the best environment for writing.

Respect, compliance, and fear, which are instilled in women from infancy, are so detrimental to us that we don't even know our own power. So great is that power, the patriarchy's goal is to crush it by any means, including the worst forms of violence. These methods are so successful that frequently the most rabid defenders of the patriarchy are women.

At Linfox we have zero tolerance. If any alcohol or drugs are found in any drivers' blood, they are instantly dismissed.

The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.