Compliance Quotes

“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”
― Daniel H. Pink

“That is, to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“While complying can be an effective strategy
for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in
control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you
through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.”
― Daniel H. Pink

“It is often disturbing to see how even intelligent people do not have straight thinking minds of their own. The pattern of the mind, whether toward conformity and compliance or otherwise, is conditioned rather early in life.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“Laws continue to be enacted, and the regulatory environment has become more complex due to unacceptable conduct remediation. Consequently, entities continue to be compelled to demonstrate compliance with legal mandates through documented assurance assessments.”
― Robert E. Davis, Assuring IT Legal Compliance

“Company leaders should understand regulatory compliance because it is crucial for maintaining legal and ethical business practices. A comprehensive understanding of compliance ensures they can make informed decisions, minimize legal risks, and safeguard the company's reputation, ultimately contributing to its long-term success and stability.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Corporate governance involves its fair share of legal and regulatory complexities, but compliance ensures survival.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“It didn't make me crazy. It made me unbearably anxious, preoccupied indignant and exhausted. I was faced with either surrendering my freedom in advance, or risking loosing it in the worst ways imaginable. One thing that makes people crazy is being told that the experiences they have did not actually happen. That the circumstances that hem them in are imaginary. That the problems are all in their head, and that if they are distressed, it is a sign of their failure. When success would be to shut up or to cease to know what they know. Out of this unbearable predicament come the rebels who choose failure and risk and the prisoners who choose compliance.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“Better die a roaring reformer than live as a cowardly conformer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Regulatory compliance is crucial in corporate lending, with financial institutions having to adhere to various laws and guidelines. It represents another set of costs and risks that lenders have to consider.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Businesses have a duty to understand and respect the laws that govern their operations.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“We've built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don’t know how to tell themselves what to do.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Guiding Your Success, One Approval at a Time. We are the cornerstone of compliance in the dynamic Indian market, ensuring your ventures meet every regulatory milestone seamlessly. With a dedicated focus on excellence, we pave the way for your innovations to flourish, navigating the intricate web of approvals. Our commitment: Empowering your ambitions, as your trusted partners in progress." By Brand Liaison”
― Brand Liaison

“Compliance is not just a box to check, but a core aspect of responsible business practice.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Legal compliance is not a cost, but an investment in long-term success.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Don't let tax problems derail your entrepreneurial dreams - prioritize compliance from the start.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“It ain't right," Celeste said. "It just ain't right to go and do what they bought you for. Why make it easy?”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“The main element you cannot delegate to your cloud service provider is your responsibility for security, compliance and customer trust.”
― Stephane Nappo

“Compliance is about the promise of safety and reassurance sold to us by powerful entities during times of vulnerability. Gangs, governments, demagogues, social media algorithms & religions seduce us with misleading untruths and comforting fables. They want us to join their narrow worldview in exchange for obedience and turning a blind eye to our own internal voice of reason & compassion. They just need our Compliance.”
― Muse

“Just because you have not been caught for doing it yet, does not make what you are doing legal.”
― Loren Weisman

“A great leader is a sponge with filter, observes everything, but obeys nothing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“The ‘thing’ determines the pronoun, not the pronoun the ‘thing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When I put the legally required OSHA signs up, I thought we were turning a corner into OSHA compliance at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm. I had no idea that it was the start of my termination!”
― Steven Magee

“Police harassment? Maintain reasonable compliance with what they are saying, video record everything, refuse to go into confined or private spaces on the grounds of maintaining personal safety and place a 911 call for a police supervisor at the first opportunity.”
― Steven Magee

“Because most societies and companies reward compliance. They do that because when you comply:
1. Your behavior is predictable.
2. You are not a threat to anyone because you are “normal.”
3. People don’t feel inferior because of your special aptitude or attitude.
4. You are easier to understand because you are like everyone else.
5. Companies find it much easier and efficient to apply one standard set of policies and procedures irrespective of your attitude or aptitude and hence prefer those who fit in. This also allows them to scale.
So, you can see that being “normal” is mainly for the benefit of others, not for you.”
― Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“Cash buys compliance.”
― Steven Magee

“There's two types of liars: those who lie out of fear and those who lie for addiction.”
― Ronald Concer

“Parker,” he says in a warning tone that still makes me want to cower. Even if now, I don’t. My father isn’t a cruel man. Just overbearing and demanding, running our household like a business, doling out commands and expecting our immediate compliance.”
― Emma St. Clair, Just Don't Fall

“most often I am running away from my comfort in fear of being complicit / if I stay still / I am surrendering to the fate of every woman before me / if I run / I will lose sight of what's important to me.”
― Najaha Nauf, October Defined: an anthology of verse

“Just because brokerages disclose a convoluted
web of profiteering doesn’t mean it’s appropriate. It just means they are hiding these questionable practices in plain sight with a mountain of compliance language that no one will ever read.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS