Quotes About Transparency

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Don't ask any questions and you won't hear any lies.

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

The smooth beeches held up their glass-clear leaves to the sun, and the light strained through them like water through a sieve.

Character is who you are when no one is looking.

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.

Bluntness is a virtue.

she never lied to them, never told them things they wanted to hear just to gain their votes. Almost inevitably when you glossed over difficult truths, it meant that you got their votes but eventually lost their trust, and that was not a viable long-term plan. It

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

Some of your colleagues stress the public's right to know, and they forget the people they want to 'speak out' are a part of that public.

There was a lightness to the material that she loved but that also made her feel vulnerable, and she wondered which was more dangerous - the transparency of a fabric or of the soul?

Your Actions Spoke Louder Than Your Words

Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

Management relationship, it's very unique. You have to bare all of your weaknesses and warts and all for them to effectively manage you.

There must be more rigorous enforcement of rules promoting transparency in the international banking and financial systems, especially more stringent KYC rules on customer identity, source of wealth, and even country of origin.

My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.