Quotes About Transparency

It doesn't pay to act bulletproof. Nobody is flawless and when you act as if you are, it always rings false.

At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

You don't want another Enron? Here's the law: If you have a company, and it can't explain, in one sentence what it does ... it's illegal!

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I've used pseudonyms, in some instances because of my source's legal commitments, in others to avoid gratuitous harm to the people mentioned. When I have disguised an individual, I have so indicated. Other than changing names and, in two instances, some telltale details about the company, I have reported what actually happened.

I do not believe in sitting on a problem. Because the longer you sit on that thing, the longer it'll irritate you. If you're keeping it to yourself, there's nothing the guy you're mad at can do to fix it, either, because you haven't told him why you're mad.

Let your associates know exactly what lies ahead for them. If it is long hours, lots of travel, belt-tightening, let them know. Let them step up to the challenge of tough times. Lead them into the future with their eyes wide open, ready to tackle what lies ahead.

But even the president of the United StatesSometimes must have to stand naked.

boards must now be much clearer about their competencies, values and ethics

effective corporate governance built on the values of accountability, honesty and transparency

the eternal values of effective corporate governance – accountability, probity and transparency – keep on shining as brightly in this naughty world.

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

Communist China is doing the same shit as America is doing, but they're out front with it.

Tell the children the truth.

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Truth is beauty. That can be a hard thing to say, because some things are not so attractive on the surface. But by owning up to them, we change them--just by speaking them.

In dealing with newspaper people, whether they are white or black, there is no way of getting their sympathy and support like that of actually knowing the individual men, of meeting and talking with them frequently and frankly, and of keeping them in touch with everything you do or intend to do.

I have learned that it is pretty hard to keep anything from the newspapers that the newspapers think the public wants to know.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but, like the sun, only for a time.

For my own good, I want to hang out with people who want to find out what it would be like to live in such a way as to leave no unspoken words, no unfinished business; I want to be with people who are hungry for the truth, who want to spend time learning and sharing what they have learned rather than defending their images or reputations.

Politeness and diplomacy are responsible for more suffering and death than all the crimes of passion in history. Fuck politeness. Fuck diplomacy. Tell the truth.

We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people.