Howard Schultz

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

American Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Esther Dyson

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

American Businesswoman

Jose Angel Gurria

If we can rid the world of financial centres that thrive on lack of transparency, non-cooperation, and weak regulation, an important step towards a fairer and cleaner world economy will have been achieved.

Mexican Economist

Julia Hartz

I'm a very connected and passionate founder. And I do model transparency and openness and loyalty in my actions.

Nick Viall

I'm a big believer in transparency in any type of a relationship and in life.

American Actor

Dalai Lama

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Tibetan Leader

Richard Edelman

PR is premised on truth, trust, and transparency.

Michael Tubbs

I fully support accountability and transparency.

American Politician

Alan Mulally

Transparency is so important in business.

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 see the greatest movie ever sold so the idea is beyond just showing that brands are part of life but actually get them to finance the film is them to finance the film and actually we show the whole process of how does it work the goal of this whole film is transparency you're gonna see the whole thing take place in this movie so that's the the whole

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 And I found out by looking at it that I search most at 11 o'clock in the morning. So I am open, and being transparent to that. And I think total personalization in this new world will require total transparency. That is going to be the price. If you want to have total personalization, you have to be totally transparent.

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 Xavier So the idea is, beyond just showing that brands are a part of your life, but actually get them to finance the film? And actually we show the whole process of how does it work. The goal of this whole film is transparency. You're going to see the whole thing take place in this movie. So that's the whole concept,

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 for global financial transparency. But still, it's a fight worth fighting. Closing the legal loopholes that enable anonymous companies would help us cut down on corruption and illegal activity. It would also allow us, as the general public, to better understand the flow of enormous sums of money

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 Whether you like it or not, radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making is coming at you fast, and it's going to change your life. That's because it's now easy to take algorithms and embed them into computers and gather all that data that you're leaving on yourself all over the place,

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 it's all available there. We have only, in government and in politics, started to scratch the surface of what people are doing in the commercial world with the information revolution. So, complete transparency will make a huge difference. In this country, if we win the election,

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 farmers all over the world to put those practices in place so that both the farmers are getting a fair price for what they're growing and we as eaters can feel good about it so that we don't because there's not this transparency in the food system that we would all like

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 transparency and fairness to how we score and understand the unbanked an offline world with something as simple as a credit score we are giving people access to formal markets and giving them the power to build their own future

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 So all of these vendors, all sorts of companies, can interact using the same database without trusting one another. It means for consumers, we can have a lot more transparency. As a real-world object travels along,

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