Governance Quotes

In politics, it often pays to be ahead of the curve. That holds true for corporate governance too, even more so when politics enter the equation.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Change can only take place if we desire the change.

Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.

Human rights don't trickle down.

Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.

Where there is society, there is no need for charity.

For our society to be better, we must revive our conscience and do Godly things.

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

Business is boss, politics is servant.

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance.

Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic.

DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be.

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

Adapt and adopt the peer-to-peer and open source models to wider implementation in organisations

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in.

A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.

A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.

Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.

Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer, ” Risk Management is like a “Brake.