Tim Cook Quotes

We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.

Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.

Globalization has made multinationals more accountable, and accountable to whomever has the highest standards, rather than the lowest ones.

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

Safety is always a paramount concern for us. We are always engaged with the studios and with what better structures can be done.

Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Transparency is one of our core principles, We treat the food with integrity. We don't commodify it beyond recognition.

A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create a better result in the world. Well, Berkshire has had practically no process. We had hardly any internal auditing until they forced it on us. We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful whom we trust.

We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.

I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, 'Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.' If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I'd fire them instantly.

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

Protect the consumer by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table.

How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it's a product from one of the approved manufacturers.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.

Standards violated are better than no standards at all.

The cigars herein contained are made by WHITE MEN.

The Nordic governments have adopted a market-friendly approach to regulation. Although they maintain regulations to protect workers, consumers and the environment, they balance those protections with a system that encourages entrepreneurship and flexibility by making it easy to start or close a business, to hire or fire employees, and to adjust work hours.

We’ve got to get the bad operators out of business so that the good operators can be rewarded for investing in safety.

As we were growing retail, and it was a huge growth phase, it was very important to keep our quality under control. Therefore, it was not just distribution, not just back-office operations, but also the risk-management practices. And these we learned together, supported by technology.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

Our goal is to set the gold standard when it comes to compliance.

There are certain systems that I think are not working well - that's the regulatory system, the whole system of how we regulate chemicals in this country.