Richard N. Haass Quotes

There's a historical view that adding process into a scrappy start-up kills innovation, but I'm a firm believer that you need process at some point to remain agile.

In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Process innovation is different from product innovation. It's about how do you create a new product or develop a new product or manufacture a new product, but not a new product itself?

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

John McCain is never the kind of person that lies to himself. When he does something wrong he knows it and deals with it.... One of the few great men.

Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.

I think that a sense of loyalty is something that a lot of people lack, just period, in life.

You can't do a good deal with bad people, and you can't do a bad deal with good people. I often use that as my compass.

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

If you don't have integrity, don't be in cinema.

I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.