Bobby Kotick Quotes

When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it something that deserves court procedures?

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

Bailing on a company is just something you don't do.

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

If you haven't signed anything, you cant be ripped off.

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.

Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

Don't under any circumstances invest any money on the Black Star Line. The District Attorney of New York County has pronounced its methods fraudulent.

Some American companies operate in the gray area between legitimacy and outright fraud … where the accounting is being perverted.

Trust and transparency, the great principles of the free market, are at stake here.

There is enourmous pressure in the investment business to deliver good news. Good news sells better ….To go out there in a bubble and talk about overpriced markets is an invitation to get fired.

It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from Government the privilege of doing business under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested.

It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.