Bank Quote by Sanjaya Baru

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of…

— Jim Yong Kim

While the World Bank is an inter-governmental institution, drawing its funds from member governments and run by a board of directors nominated by member…

— Sanjaya Baru

Is management candid with the shareholders?

— Warren Buffett

“The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the…

— Amartya Sen

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

— Jim Yong Kim

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

— Bob Diamond

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

— Mian Muhammad Mansha

“The truth is that banks are the last feudal kingdoms, their rulers omnipotent, divine warlords. Their key lieutenants are 'ronin' (wandering mercenary samurai) who…

— Satyajit Das

We follow highest level of corporate governance, which is in line with a global company like ours.

— Dilip Shanghvi

If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards…

— B. C. Forbes

In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders -…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank…

— James Wolfensohn