Best Board Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It is an honor to join 'The Nation's esteemed editorial board.”

“My basic setup is my Ibanez Fireman guitars and for pedals, the TC Electronic MojoMojo is the mainstay of my board, along with a Catalinbread Calissto Chorus.”

“You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.”

“The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.”

“Our courts' decisions do not permeate the public consciousness - we have no equivalent of the Brown v Board of Education ruling which outlawed racial segregation, or of Roe v Wade, which enshrined a woman's right to choose not just into law but into the public imagination as well.”

“As long as you like yourself, as long as your family like you, as long as you are good at what you do, your staff respect you, and your board have trust in you, that's what is important.”

“As captain, you take a little bit more on board than probably just being a player.”

“It is important for big names such as Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri to get on board and recognise that women do actually understand the game and they can play as well.”

“PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) is doing an unbelievable job in trying to resurrect international cricket. I just hope the World XI tour goes ahead and that will almost be the curtain raiser to, hopefully, get some international cricket back.”

“You can never stop learning in football and I'm always trying to take little things on board that other players do.”

“I have never run after the captaincy in my entire career. It is something for the cricket board to decide.”

“In my space journey, I felt vulnerable because we did not have anyone with medical background. When we make that big trip to Mars, we would need a doctor on board.”

“It is easier to produce a film on your own than convincing another person to come on board.”

“Listen, it's not just 'Full House.' It's across the board in the entertainment industry: women are not paid what men are paid.”

“I am happy to be on board of Baseline Ventures. They manage some of the top talents of the country, and I look forward to a great partnership with Baseline.”

“The reality is that religion, across the board, and in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace - and it is childish and naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise.”

“We are a very systems- and process- driven business which reports directly to the board, whether it is risk or legal.”

“I don't switch my act up to win over the crowd. I'm more like, 'You came here... this is what I do.' I dig my heels in harder if I feel like they are not on board.”

“Web series are a way forward. It is a space where creative minds can express themselves without the fear of censor board.”

“I love business and that's why I go on other people's board because it is my hobby. Some people join a tennis club to do things in their spare time. I join boards because that's what I love.”

“I don't invest in shares in companies that don't have women on their board.”

“I think every league is good. Every league is pretty much the same: You got your top teams that are all very good, you got middle of the road teams that are really good and then you got your bottom of leagues that are all kind if fighting to get really good. I think it's pretty much the same across the board; I've said that for a long time.”

“Usually if you have an idea, you have to first pitch it to a production company, get them on board, then go around and pitch to networks.”

“I know how important it is to take different tactics from different managers on board.”

“We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.”

“A lot of people have said 'people should see you work in the studio,' because a lot of people don't realize I'm an actual engineer. I don't walk in and have some guy grab the board. I have my own studio and soldered every wire in the studio.”

“The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher and higher.”

“My censor board is my own heart and mind. Our audience can say that the women in my films are bold or sensual, but never, ever vulgar.”

“I am fortunate to be on board with one of India's top sports management group.”

“When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.”

“I roughly draw the scene beforehand to be more confident on the set. Instead of talking and explaining certain things, I try to visually communicate the scene to my team with the story board. This is how I work.”

“The best chance we have of being successful is to not slip up and keep working hard to get three points on the board.”

“I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.”

“I don't care if you're from the right or left of politics - there are core objectives we can all agree on: equal pay, equal representation on the media, equal representation at board level, politics, an end to domestic violence.”

“There's always plays that Coach Reid just draws up every single week. I always say that they always work. He just gets on the board in his room and just starts drawing plays. The possibilities are endless.”

“Early on, when I first started acting professionally, it was really important for me to get my parents on board, because they were so against it.”

“My executive board, my management, my friends, are so ethnically diverse.”

“The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but what I think is there's a lot of fertile ground for good ideas.”

“When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.”

“Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.”

“I worked a full-time job at a place call Caraustar. We recycle paper, then through recycled paper, we take it and we make V board out of it. If you buy a TV, a new couch, you see these little V boards that make like a V.”

“I joined the board of Etsy when it was just three founders, and I helped recruit the COO and CTO, Chad Dickerson, who later became the CEO.”

“HCL and Wipro are largely controlled by one family, so a strife with the board is not possible.”

“One of the things I think is really cool that we're testing on board the International Space Station is the water reclamation system.”

“I sit on the board of Cloudera, a big vantage point of big data.”

“Fresh snow is amazing. The board is real different... it floats on the powder and goes really fast. If you're riding a long board, it's more like surfing than skiing.”

“I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies.”

“I always believe that if you stick with quality and give people a chance at the time, that people eventually get on board with it. It's been my experience more than not. Once in a while, there's a show that you just can't seem to break through on.”

“I remember, often, when you tell people you're doing a book about board games, they think you're totally nuts. And that might be warranted. But I feel like if we can't get the story of Monopoly right... what hope is there for anything else?”

“That's how the Pell Grant system works, in that you get a flat dollar amount, and you can use it for tuition or room and board.”

“I believe in the power of peer mentorship. When I learned how to ask for a raise, how to fire someone, how to deal with a board challenge - I didn't get that from mentors like Hillary Clinton. I got that from women who were my friends and who had already done the thing that I was doing.”

“I love the way that girls turn up at our boutiques knowing all the names of the dresses, and that was happening before we launched our brand Pinterest board.”

“I feel, for the most part, especially in comedy, you make your own work, and maybe that's true across the board.”

“As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.”

“As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.”

“I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.”

“When I grew up in Cincinnati in 1974, the Board of Education set up the performing school, similar to the New York performing arts school, and it was in walking distance from my school.”

“I have conquered my space in four, five years and never had any problems with anyone - the fans, the board, my team-mates, the coaching staff. That has not changed.”

“I moved to Los Angeles. My parents were not on board with that, and so I had to get a lot of different jobs. One of them was working for a man in Hollywood who had a weekly poker game.”

“I was a wrestling fan long enough, and once in a while, I would get bored. I'd be on board with a superstar and love what he'd do. Then eventually, I would get bored with him. I don't want people to think that way of me, so I'm doing everything I can to make sure it doesn't happen.”

“The board gets upset because I won't take a raise, but I've got plenty of money.”

“When you receive national recognition for leading the nation's toughest crackdown on illegal immigration and serving as Donald Trump's Virginia State Chairman, you get used to being falsely labeled as racist and xenophobic by the mainstream media, especially by 'The Washington Post''s editorial board, which has labeled me as such things for years.”

“I'd be very happy serving on a local school board. I just know that I have a responsibility to give back.”

“At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.”

“I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.”

“The art cars are the public transportation system. And that requires regulation because, lately, we've had art cars that don't want people on board and that want private parties, and that's in conflict with the communitarian feeling and the interactive aspect of society.”

“Everyone has different things they like in terms of board setup. The grind of the board and how it's waxed - you want to make sure that the speed of the board is right for the conditions of the halfpipe. And then there's the edges and the bevel of the edge.”

“You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.”

“Our economic model allows us to invest a disproportionate amount in our food costs. We have a very efficient system: customers go through a single line, the people who serve you are the ones who make the food, and our menu board is not cluttered.”

“I knock on my board to unjinx myself.”

“As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.”

“I am surrounded by exceptional women on Accenture's board of directors as well as my own leadership team.”

“Accenture has long been a champion of inclusion and diversity and, specifically, gender balance at every level of our organization, including our board of directors.”

“In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.”

“I was born in Mumbai. We stayed in a joint family. But in 1994, my father had to shift to Pune for business. I started working at a very early stage. Immediately after my SSC board examination, I took up odd jobs in shops, as I wanted to contribute to my family.”

“Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!”

“It sounds boring, but I'm such a guitar junkie and a gear junkie. I'm always fiddling with my stuff. It's relaxing to me... I'm always pulling my stuff apart, getting my pedal board out and fiddling with it or changing guitar strings.”

“When I was 21, I was in a pretty serious band, and we almost got signed - went to New York, showcased, all that - but didn't end up getting signed, and we broke up. I went back to the drawing board; I really took a hit from that whole experience.”

“I wanna put numbers on the board. And the thing that everybody doesn't get is that it just doesn't happen. It doesn't just fall out of the air and land on your lap; the only way to get it is to get it and put the work in.”

“'Women on Board' provides a roadmap for high-performing women leaders to join high-performing boards. It is a must-read for every sitting board director, man or woman, and for everyone who aspires to a corporate board seat.”

“Having diversity around the board room, the executive table, and up and down our stores is really important.”

“Over the years, CBO has been all over the board on healthcare. The only consistent point is they've missed the mark on different pieces. That's the nature of a scorekeeper.”

“The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.”

“There is no question that Hannity is a conservative. But I can tell you from personal experience after having worked with O'Reilly for years now, you never know where he is going to come out on an issue. He definitely leans right when it comes to certain social, traditional value issues, but he's all over the board on certain other issues.”

“I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.”

“Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an 'epic failure,' and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it.”

“I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company's leadership and dedicated employees.”

“My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.”

“As a former board member for Teach For America, I understand that every child has the ability to learn and that, no matter their circumstances at home, we have a duty and a responsibility to educate them and to do it well.”

“I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected to a bulletin board. It seemed like the world was somehow brighter, the greens were greener. Like I'd stepped through a portal to the other side. I knew back then that things would never be the same again for me.”

“It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality.”

“Klopp would reproach me for not tracking back properly. I took things on board, and I listened to him. I worked hard in training; I stayed behind after training. That's what helped me to shine in the Bundesliga because I scored quite a lot of goals despite some difficult games in the league.”

“I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company.”

“I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons, and the storytelling of it, and the weird dice, and the fact that it didn't use a traditional board. It felt like I was a part of something special and almost kind of like a secret club because a lot of people didn't know what it was and didn't understand it.”

“'Black film,' unless it's lucky enough or creative enough, or timely enough to build a life of its own, hangs subjacent to 'white film' on Hollywood's financial score board... aided and abetted by the supposition that so-called black film has no foreign market.”

“No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.”

“I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.”

“It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.”

“I quit 'Splash!' because I couldn't dive off a 3 m. board.”

“There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.”