Quotes About Transparency

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

you should regularly ask your staff, employees, and customers: "Can you tell me something I don't want to hear?

Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

The third way is less common and certainly less of a layup—a culture of integrity, meaning a culture of honesty, transparency, fairness, and strict adherence to rules and regulations. In such cultures, there can be no head fakes or winks. People who break the rules do not leave the company for "personal reasons" or to "spend more time with their families." They are hanged—publicly—and the reasons are made painfully clear to everyone.

The Member and Employee Training and Oversight On (ME TOO) Congress Act called for more transparency, streamlined the procedure for reporting harassment, and ensured that taxpayers weren't paying for settlements. It stripped away the mandatory nondisclosure agreement and the mediation. The victims would be provided legal counsel, and interns and fellows would be covered by the law as well.

Everything concealed will be revealed.

While I may be guilty of many things, one of them is not that I would lie to you. I will tell you every awful truth," he promised. "I will not lie to you, at least not about big things. If you ask about hairstyles, butt size, or shoes, then I might resort to creative answers.

What should he say to this woman that wouldn't entail ornamenting the tunic of lies he wore?

Walker told Kristjánsson about the Mossfon data and Wintris Inc., the offshore company belonging to Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, Iceland's prime minister, who had been elected on a platform of getting tough on the country's creditors and their offshore dealings. Icelanders were not aware that their prime minister was himself involved in the very activity he was castigating.

It's a choice: Either you try to make it look easy or you emphasize how hard it is.

la mexicana en la actualidad, no cuenta con instituciones adecuadas y sólidas para responder con rapidez y éxito al reto de las organizaciones criminales: las tiene que crear. Hereda instituciones que fueron diseñadas para funcionar con controles verticales, sin transparencia ni rendición de cuentas, con prácticas de corrupción muy arraigadas, y una sociedad civil desorganizada.

Natacha! ¿Cómo pensás que te voy a mentir?

In just a few more years, the current homogenized 'voice' of business—the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of the 18th century French court.…[C]ompanies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone."4

Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

I want to come with you, but first you've got to give me a few straight answers." "It's against my nature, but I'll try.

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.

we're inclined to say what we think, even when we have not thought very much.

It seems to me that the only way to strengthen the morale of the people whose morale is worth strengthening, is to tell them the truth, and nothing but the truth, even if the truth is horrible." Clark

Make no mistake, those who are the most eager to harshly criticize others are often the ones most desperate to keep hidden their own secret sins or unresolved pain.

It's not bad that I'm vulnerable, but am I displaying a mature form of my vulnerability?

Honesty is a suitor with piercing vision who isn't swayed by pretending and positioning.

those who are the most eager to harshly criticize others are often the ones most desperate to keep hidden their own secret sins or unresolved pain.