#boards

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#building #business #chief #chief executive #companies

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

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#had #significant #suckers #those #time

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#boards #companies #constituents #data #defend

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards. ↗

— James Payn

#country #establishment #fail #must #nor

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#ages #been #boards #confidant #enough

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#cartoonist #could #decided #design #doing

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#black #did #had #keyboards #lot

The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated. ↗

— Adam Savage

#boards #crew #discovery #going #ideas

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#analysis #benefit #boards #chess #compress

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#keyboards #percussion #played #sang