Transparency Quotes

• Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Generosity
  • Waste
  • Consistently

• We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

  

  Mike Quigley
  • Accountability
  • Discussion
  • Hyperbole

• First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Language
  • Term
  • Openness

• The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.

  

  Hosni Mubarak
  • Doubt
  • Special
  • Vote

• Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Important
  • Black
  • Goal

• Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

  

  Aruna Roy
  • Action
  • Corruption
  • Transparency

• The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Generations
  • Enjoyed
  • Fatherhood

• If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Simple
  • Vote
  • Communicate

• When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.

  

  Michael Hayden
  • American
  • Political
  • Questions

• It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.

  

  Michael Otto
  • Important
  • Protection
  • Asking

• Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

  

  Brian Boyd
  • People
  • Integrity
  • Honesty

• With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reason
  • Lead
  • Searching

• I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Responsibility
  • Organization
  • Lines

• Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Education
  • Health
  • Government

• We are fighting corruption and all illegal activities and building a culture of transparency and ethical governance.

  

  Ali Bongo Ondimba
  • Fighting
  • Corruption
  • Transparency

• To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.

  

  David Niu
  • Leader
  • Workplace
  • Devotion

• Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Joy
  • Humanity
  • Chance

• I didn't offer transparency. I provided one quarterly report in letter form. That was all you got. I basically demanded that if you're going to invest in my fund you need to accept my terms. The terms not being super highs, but just, I'm not going to cater to you.

  

  Michael Burry
  • Accepting
  • Letters
  • Reports

• The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

  

  Simon Mainwaring
  • Success
  • Brand
  • Accountability

• It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Reality
  • Humans
  • Tears

• Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Dark
  • Awareness
  • Transparency

• Listen, re-gifting is fine as long as there is transparency. You just have to be like, 'This is something I got that I couldn't use, and I thought you might like it.'

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Use
  • Transparency

• There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Pretend
  • Transparency
  • Disciples

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