Arthur Levitt Jr.
United States
3 Feb 1931 // 9 Feb 2001
Financial Advisor
3 Feb 1931 // 9 Feb 2001
Financial Advisor
I have come to view strong corporate governance as indispensable to resilient and vibrant capital markets. It is the blood that fills the veins of transparent corporate disclosure... the muscle that moves a viable and accessible financial reporting structure. And without financial reporting premised on sound, honest numbers, capital markets will collapse upon themselves, suffocate and die.
Speech to the Audit Committee Symposium, New York City. 'An Essential Next Step in the Evolution of Corporate Governance' (1999)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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