Corporations famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
-- Adam McKay -
The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people.
-- Al Gore -
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
-- Andrew Mellon -
The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759(still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).
-- Andrew Tobias -
Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.
-- Andy Stern -
Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
-- Anita Borg -
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
-- Ann Macbeth -
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
-- Annie Lennox -
In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.
-- Antony Jay -
I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.
-- Arthur Rock -
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
-- Atom Egoyan -
A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
-- Ben Stein -
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
-- Bernie Sanders -
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.
-- Bob Black -
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations
-- Brian De Palma -
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
-- C. Wright Mills -
The ideal body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
-- Caitlin Stasey -
It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.
-- Cecile Richards -
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
-- Cesar Chavez -
The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.
-- Charles Derber -
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation
-- Charles Petzold -
We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.
-- Chris Hedges -
I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
-- Daley Thompson -
I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
-- Dan Savage -
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
-- Daryl Hannah -
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
-- David Bohm -
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.
-- David Korten -
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on colonizÂing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.
-- David Korten -
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
-- David Puttnam -
You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.
-- Daymond John -
Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.
-- Dennis Kucinich -
Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.
-- Dick Thornburgh -
Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.
-- Don Tapscott -
When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top.
-- Donald Trump -
April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.
-- Ed Helms -
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
-- Edward Abbey -
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
-- Edward Coke -
Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?
-- Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow -
I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.
-- Eli Broad -
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
-- Elizabeth Warren -
Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
-- Elizabeth Warren -
What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it.
-- Eric Kierans -
The Internet is corporations all the way down.
-- Ethan Zuckerman -
Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.
-- Etienne Wenger -
I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.
-- Ezra Klein -
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.
-- Fareed Zakaria -
The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.
-- Frederick W. Smith -
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
-- Gary Hamel -
No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.
-- George Matthew Adams -
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
-- Gloria Swanson -
Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.
-- Greg Kinnear -
Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.
-- Greg Walden -
Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd -
In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.
-- Henry Ford II -
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.
-- Henry Jenkins -
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
-- Henry Mintzberg -
Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.
-- Hillary Clinton -
Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.
-- Hillary Clinton -
Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.
-- Hillary Clinton -
In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.
-- Ian Bremmer -
Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
-- Iris DeMent -
There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.
-- James Surowiecki -
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
-- James Surowiecki -
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.
-- James Surowiecki -
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
-- James Surowiecki -
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
-- Jane Addams -
The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies
-- Jean Ziegler -
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
-- Jello Biafra -
The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.
-- Jerry Brown -
The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
-- Jerry Garcia -
The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.
-- Jerry Mander -
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
-- Jim Hightower -
The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
-- Jim Hightower -
The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The estimated dividend income received by the Thomson family in 1995 from its 72% ownership share of the Thomson Corporation and its 22% ownership share of the Hudson's Bay Company was $310 million.
-- Jim Stanford -
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.
-- Joe Baca -
The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.
-- Joel Bakan -
As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.
-- Joel Bakan -
The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.
-- Joel Bakan -
As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.
-- Joel Bakan -
Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.
-- Joel Bakan -
By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.
-- Joel Bakan -
Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.
-- Joel Bakan -
We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.
-- John Battelle -
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
-- John C. Dvorak -
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
-- John L. Lewis -
A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.
-- John Lydon -
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
-- John Marshall -
Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.
-- Jon Stewart -
Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them
-- Jonathan Barnbrook -
The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.
-- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -
I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.
-- Josh Fox -
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
-- Kage Baker
