Quotes About Transparency

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

I want to democratize business news.

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

REAL trumps PERFECT... because REAL creates TRUST.

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Unfortunately, the worst part of a product/service is the seller.

LESS fabrication, MORE facilitation

Don't confuse "strict confidentiality" with "keeping employees in the dark." Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

Write bylaws in a simple language—no one needs an advanced degree to understand them.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

Although it is embarassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you're sneaky, all the ways hat you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways.

How honest do we want to be with ourselves?

Glass is material sea.