Charlie Melancon Quotes

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.

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.

I don't do any corporate work.

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

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

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

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.

I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

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

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

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.

CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.

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.

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

The public may admire a corporation for its impressive size. Who in the United States doesn't? But when a business, however gigantic, gets smug enough to believe that it is sufficient only to match competition on trivial points instead of leading competition in valid matters, that business is becoming vulnerable to public disfavor.

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

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

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

Only the corporation that shirks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be over-sensitive.

Industry leaders have the power to set standards.