Steve Odland famous quotes

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.
-- Steve Odland

#Independent #Eye #Decision

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
-- Steve Odland

#Years #Sea #Focus

I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of the public is that accounting rules are black and white. They are often anything but that, and in many instances the changes in earnings came after new interpretations by the chief accountant of the SEC.
-- Steve Odland

#Mean #Black And White #Thinking

Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to 7 billion people

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.