Corporate Diversity Quotes

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

I think that if companies build for diversity from the beginning from the ground up, that's definitely the ideal state for how to build diversity into your company.

I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.

As a black person on the outside, because there's so much black art and so much of black people's work circulating, so many people imitating what black people do, you would think that there'd be more black people on the business side. It didn't cross my mind that every label head, for the most part, is a white guy.

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

My becoming the CEO is a testament to our long commitment to diversity inclusion. And I intend to really focus and really pay that forward for our future diverse leaders at Deloitte.

From Warren Buffett to Jamie Dimon to Paul Tudor Jones, no one has cracked the code and put a critical mass of top women in the C-Suite or near it.

Having a CEO, having that person run a news corporation who's female, is already a talking point.

The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.

Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.

One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.

I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.

When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made it to the top.

I don't believe in quotas for quotas sake, but I think companies without any women on their boards should write to their shareholders and explain why - explain how many women they've interviewed, why they haven't taken anybody on.

Announcing a diversity initiative, or making it a cause, exerts unwanted pressure.

Having diversity around the board room, the executive table, and up and down our stores is really important.

We have to recognize that there is a range of interests, like there isn't a single corporate interest and a single state interest, so there's a range. In addition to that, there is the fact of professional integrity.