Billy Tauzin Quotes

I, personally, trust Valve. But I'm just saying, honestly, I think a lot of the industry doesn't.

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

I think it's a mistake for the American public to constantly be told that if you work for an oil company or you work for a bank, that automatically makes you bad. I think a lot of these people are very qualified people who are patriots. They're going to want to help the country.

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

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

I don't represent corporations.

The violations of these diesel motors by our company go against everything that Volkswagen stands for... at this time, I don't yet have the answers to all the questions. I'm utterly sorry that we have damaged trust in this way. I offer my deepest apologies to our customers, the authorities, and to the public at large for our misconduct.

SK Group will work to be reborn as a group embraced by the public.

The expectations of people and society on Samsung have grown stricter and bigger.

Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.

I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.

A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.

I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Business leaders shape public opinion.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

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.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.

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.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

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