“Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.” PeopleCompanyDirectorsMajorsDollarsAccessBillionsBoardsTradingBucksWrong TimeInsidersRiggedBoard Of DirectorsInsider Trading Author:Preet Bharara
“Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.” EnergyCompanyIssuesDirectorsFinanceEfficiencyCarbonTradingEnergy Efficiency Author:Elliot Morley
“[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler].... It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.” MenLittlesCareLawCompanyLibertyClearDirectorsDirectTradeSlaveTendenciesTyrantsShockingDiminishPettyLaws Of NatureViolationDealerSlave TradePeddler Author:James Otis
“Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsSometimesFilmStuffWaterChurchCompanyComedyDirectorsMarkFloodInsurance CompaniesPomposity Author:Billy Connolly
“What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindAbilityCompanyDirectorsLetting GoArtisticDancerBlankCanvasChoreographersYou Think You KnowBlank Canvas Author:Misty Copeland
“I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.” DreamAbleArtistActorsCompanyEffectsHavensDirectorsSafeFinalsProducersEditsSafe Haven Author:Brittany Murphy
“I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.” SchoolFilmLeftCompanyDirectorsCamerasIncludingScreensEquipmentTelephonesFilm DirectorsProjectors Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination.” NeedsSelfInterestDecisionCompanyPracticeJourneyHonestyExerciseDirectorsIntellectualPrejudiceConstantDestinationSelf InterestIntellectual Honesty Author:Mervyn King
“The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.” PeopleShouldWellsCompanyWatchesDirectorsManagementAffairExpectedPartnersManagersOver ItAnxiousVigilanceNegligence Author:Adam Smith
“I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.” ThinkingLongFilmCompanyRolesIndustryDirectorsHusbandAssumingTheatreArtisticMy HusbandFilm IndustrySydney Author:Cate Blanchett
“When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.” TwoEndsPoliticalCompanyMillionsRepublicanDirectorsProgramVoteCampaignsChiefsFantasticBordersStaffCommitteesRomneyViolationRicoChief Of Staff Author:Patrick Caddell
“As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.” FirstsDifferentBigsSeemsRunningJobsInterestingCompanyDirectorsFirst TimeBig Companies Author:Timothy Miller
“A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.” NeedsYearsCompanyDirectorsIndependent Author:Charlie Munger
“I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"” KnowsKindArtSaidTwoBookUseWantedJobsMovingArtistGuySidesCompanyNew YorkOne DayDirectorsComputerBoxesHeavyBoardsDepartmentReviewsLunchPublishingBostonJacketsMacsBook CoversArt Director Author:Biz Stone
“Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories, those that have been hacked and those that don't yet know it.” KnowsWantWellsHas BeensTwoStatesFallUnitedCompanyUnited StatesDirectorsFormerCategoriesNsaKeithHacked Author:Ted Koppel