Because of a greater focus on governance, the resignation of a director certainly has a greater weight attached to it. Boards have greater power. In the past, directors just faded into the sunset.


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CHARLES KENNEDY
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH
I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a...
CHARLES COMISKEY
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON
The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
I could never hate anyone I knew.
CHARLES LAMB
Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many oth...
CHARLES DANCE
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more...
CHARLES SAATCHI
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ...
CHARLES WOLFE
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pompos...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any...
CHARLES TUPPER
My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that mom...
CHARLES KELLEY
I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w...
CHARLES DICKENS
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official...
CHARLES PEGUY
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ...
CHARLES MACKAY
Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ...
CHARLES MICHEL
In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ...
CHARLES MICHEL
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
CHARLES WESLEY
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
CHARLES READE
The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...
CHARLES HUGHES
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...
CHARLES DICKENS
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
CHARLES DICKENS
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al...
CHARLES DARWIN
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...
CHARLES DARWIN
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...
CHARLES DARWIN
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explan...
CHARLES DARWIN
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
CHARLES DARWIN
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN
Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue ...
CHARLES DUHIGG
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
CHARLES RICHARDS
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, ...
CHARLES DUHIGG
You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d...
CHARLES SCHWAB
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE