In politics, it often pays to be ahead of the curve. That holds true for corporate governance too, even more so when politics enter the equation.


Mmanti Umoh

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

A man of politics writes about philosophy: it could be that his "true" philosophy should be looked f...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
Generally, people who crib about corporate politics are, more often than not, those who've playe...
RAVI SUBRAMANIAN
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is somethin...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. ...
LARRY J. SABATO
The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it com...
CRISS JAMI
Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek mili...
EQBAL AHMED
...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disput...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: livi...
SONIA GANDHI
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are onl...
FRANK DOBSON
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that ...
PAUL BLOOM
A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER
The fact that she is a woman does have a symbolic and motivating effect for other women to get invol...
JOAN BROWNE
Rockefeller College is one of the premier places in the country to study politics, governance, polic...
FRANK THOMPSON
Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. A...
JAMES DOBSON
I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE
I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.
NICOLA STURGEON
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women,...
NINA POWER
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purp...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensiv...
HILLARY CLINTON
We at the center want to get people from all walks of life to be more involved in politics. This ser...
HOLLY HATCHER
I think our politics are extremely punk. The world that we operate in is still unfortunately more co...
AMY RAY
I think our politics are extremely punk. The world that we operate in is still unfortunately more co...
AMY RAY
I think our politics are extremely punk. The world that we operate in is still unfortunately more co...
AMY RAY
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so lau...
CHARLES KENNEDY
If we do not fix education in Africa, we are heading for monumental economic disaster.
MMANTI UMOH
Another grave fault in our election system is that the campaigns are unduly strung out. [Election Ad...
JOSEPH P. HARRIS
As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals.
CHARLES DICKENS
Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, ...
BARACK OBAMA
You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in e...
BENJAMIN KANE ETHRIDGE
‎"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow
EDWARD R. MURROW
To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to g...
THOMAS PAINE
In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. The...
BILL CLINTON
يا راكعين لأمريكا , أنا بريء منكم
ناجي العلي
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM
There is too much money in politics today and we need to get too much money out of politics.
BILL GLUBA
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. ...
JOHN MAJOR
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
WILL ROGERS
When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big pict...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.
ADI GODREJ
Let me tell you, politics is much more difficult than war, ... In politics, there are so many more f...
MASSOUD BARZANI
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the de...
TAMMY BRUCE
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
JIM LEACH
Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.
ORRIN WOODWARD
It's a fine line between success and failure. You need to be ahead of the curve ... just not too far...
GREG KAVANDER
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human ...
ERIC HOFFER
No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in ...
EVANDER HOLYFIELD
No wonder Americans hate politics, when year in, year out, they hear politicians make promises that ...
BILL CLINTON
It's been consumed by politics, controlled by politics and seems only to get more and more just sunk...
PAUL GOLDBERGER
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with Ameri...
EDNA FERBER
The media in the States can be quite self-reflective. When I lived in England, I was much more aware...
MAX MINGHELLA
When has politics ever truly represented the individual?The answer is often devastating.
HOWARD JOHN DAVIES
In the transformed world political context of today, it is more essential than ever that the critiqu...
ŞEYLA BENHABIB
I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even wh...
ARUNDHATI ROY
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
LARRY SUMMERS
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human respo...
YEHUDA AMICHAI
Neither in the past was I associated with politics, nor today I have any association with politics a...
BABA RAMDEV
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
HILLARY CLINTON
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a s...
W. H. AUDEN
The fact that it?s politics is ridiculous, because it?s just not true.
DIANE MCCUTCHEON
The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
ANON.
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
ANONYMOUS
It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party org...
CHARLES EDISON
The power to become a great politician in life is by learning to serve for only one term,so that the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.

It's not about bein...
KAREN L. SYED
Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.
JON STEWART
Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.
JAMES PONIEWOZIK
The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride arou...
JON STEWART
At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional ...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisa...
LARRY HOGAN
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his po...
MAX WEBER
There are no true friends in politics.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, a...
ROY JENKINS
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so cor...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't bloc...
BOB DYLAN
So, who needs pantomime for laughs when we have politics?
HELENA DALLI
Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahea...
LINDA MCMAHON
When executives express their dissatisfaction with their companies' portfolio management success, th...
ELIO EVANGELISTA
It saddens me greatly to see Mark's loss of faith in the power of politics to make change for the be...
JULIA GILLARD
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
BRAD HENRY
When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion...
NATE LOWMAN
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can ...
NORM MACDONALD
We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corpor...
BRYANT MCGILL
Politics is the dirtiest of games. Whether you play it, watch it or even try to avoid it, you'll alw...
MOSTAFA BAKOUSH
It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most ...
H.W. BRANDS
One wants to make sure that it continues to build and not to be too far ahead of the curve in moneta...
HOMI KHARAS
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they...
JOHN BERCOW
My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome...
LAURA RICKETTS
People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...

More Mmanti Umoh