Governance Quotes

“Third World is a state of the mind and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth and even sixth world, we will be in it.”
― Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba

“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.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“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.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Where there is society, there is no need for charity.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Who are you to decide what needs to be done? That's subjective by nature. No two people think alike."

"Someone has to decide. Without, rulers, there's chaos.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?”
― Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy

“when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Good governance is less about structure and rules than being focused, effective and accountable.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer,” Risk Management is like a “Brake.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.”
― E. M. Forster

“A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“A harmonic, forward-looking approach to practice governance discipline has to be put at the heart of corporate board in the digital age.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“Applying deep insight and rubber stamping are such counter-propositions.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“Governance is not about maximization, but about optimization.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in the actions of the simple...."
"Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memories of Ubertino, which transform into theological decisions the summons of the simple to poverty." I said.
"Yes, but as you have seen, this happens too late, and when it happens, the truth of the simple has already been transformed into the truth of the powerful, more useful for the Emperor Louis than for a Friar of the Poor Life.”
― Umberto Eco

“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.”
― Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

“Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.”
― Clifford Cohen

“Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.”
― Amit Kalantri

“We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic

“What is Science Fiction? It is the absence of governance and political arrangements in worlds where advanced technology marches onwards. Petty politics and primal instincts continue to dominate while scientific advancement continues. This is our problem today as well: our brightest minds devote themselves to science but shun governance and politics. So as in each catastrophe conjured and contemplated in science fiction, we run the risk of cosmic destruction, lest our greatest minds turn to resolving the outstanding problems of politics and governance first.”
― Usman W. Chohan

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

“Learning” and “Performance” are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“The purpose of the governing body, or board of directors, is to direct and guide the organization in the right direction”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards