Anonymity Quote by Carroll Quigley

“when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency”

— Luc Zandvliet

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public.…

— Marc Rich

“Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.

— Audrey Tautou

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this…

— Ida Tarbell

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

— Roger Mudd

“A society notorious for effacing the boundary which once separated the private from the public, for making it a public virtue and obligation to…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes,…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Privacy is dead. We live in a world of instantaneous, globalised gossip. The idea that there is a 'private' sphere and a 'public' sphere…

— Gavin Esler

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think that's the beauty of being a private company: you get to choose when you disclose something. You can play it in a…

— Taavet Hinrikus