Ron White Quotes

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

I don't represent corporations.

I'm a corporate thug. That's the best way to be.

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

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

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

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

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.

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Industry leaders have the power to set standards.

Excessive pandering to stockholders is as bad as any other form of pandering

I will always do what's best for the company.

When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.

I think corporations and people are very different. People make corporations whatever it is that they're going to be.

I think the presumption is, for some reason, anybody who comes from the business or the corporate world is corrupt.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.

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

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.

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.

We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.