Eric Kierans famous quotes

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.
-- Eric Kierans

#Moving #Citizenship #Assets

The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.
-- Eric Kierans

#Party #Political #Principles

The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax privileges, and appropriate labour legislation and market support to attract a commitment and investment.
-- Eric Kierans

#Commitment #Government #Support

Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources. Capital, in corporate hands, can move anywhere and thus demand and get the utmost in concessions and privileges as well as the freedom to operate in the interest of ever-increasing wealth and assets.
-- Eric Kierans

#Moving #Hands #Land

Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.
-- Eric Kierans

#Years #Support #Community

Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it.
-- Eric Kierans

#Corporations #Sometimes #Capitalism

This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation.
-- Eric Kierans

#Competition #Growth #Buckets

Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are overwhelmingly concerned with the capture of and trade in property rights, the ownership of assets that magnify a corporation's wealth, power, and control. It is what John Maynard Keynes described as "a casino world"-wealth without worth.
-- Eric Kierans

#Rights #Today #Movement

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

His lie ability is an asset

The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.