Diego Luna Quotes

Every manager feels a responsibility to his board of directors and the public and the players.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity, owned by the very rich and managed by over-paid executives.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

We follow highest level of corporate governance, which is in line with a global company like ours.

If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

The days of CEOs getting rich while shareholders lose has got to end. Management must be accountable.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

If the government is injecting public money, it should also take the right to oversee board appointments, executive pay, and future business operations.

While we are clear that it is right that those who work hard, generate wealth and create jobs for our country are rewarded, where failure is rewarded or people award themselves huge pay rises that bear no relation to performance or what their companies can bear, trust is severely undermined.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.