Corporate America Quotes

• The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

  Faith Popcorn

  Fun, Home, America

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.29, BookBaby

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• I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

  Bennie Thompson

  Confidence, Believe, America

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• And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

  Tom Scholz

  Animal, Thinking, America

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• We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

  Carl Icahn

  Real, Roots, America

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• The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.

  Boomer Esiason

  Football, Usa, Organization

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• We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

  Harry Belafonte

  America, Knees, Globalization

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• The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

  Henry Kravis

  America, Today, Opinion

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• The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

  Robert Mueller

  Confidence, America, People

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• I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

  Henry Kravis

  America, Assets, Owners

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• With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

  Steve Jobs

  Blow, Technology, America

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• There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn’t work in corporate America. It’s not an excuse, but it does help explain

  Maurice Clarett

  Growing Up, Attitude, Character

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• You know, I never fight for corporate America.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Fighting, America, Corporate

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• I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

  Bernie Sanders

  Art, Wall, America

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most Americans that work in corporate America should be able to relate to this show.

  Larenz Tate

  Lying, Dirty, America

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.

  Eric Alterman

  Powerful, Military, America

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• When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.

  Emo Philips

  Kids, White, America

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 18, 2000.

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• There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

  Ken Auletta

  School, Government, Engineering

  "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

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• I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Helping Others, America

  "Eva Longoria on Business, Beauty, and Mastering Her Signature Smoky Eye". Interview with Patricia Reynoso, www.glamour.com. March 17, 2015.

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• Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.

  Paul Gillin

  Dirty, Data, America

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• The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.

  Hollis Stacy

  Party, America, People

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• During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street, Corporate America, and the Israeli Lobby with the full complicity of the national media. The United States has become ungovernable, unfixable, and, therefore, unsustainable economically, politically, militarily, and environmentally. It has evolved into the wealthiest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all times.

  Thomas Naylor

  Powerful, Wall, America

  "Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. May 13, 2012.

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• The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

  Russ Feingold

  Party, America, Tea

  "A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Mark Byrne, www.gq.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.

  Lou Dobbs

  Cutting, Past, Opportunity

  Lou Dobbs (2006). “War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War ont he American Dream and How to Fight Back”, p.110, Penguin

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• Drs. Pinkett and Robinson choose to BE the message that they bring! They don't just enumerate the problems but offer solid solutions for navigating pathways to business ownership, and the halls and boardrooms of previously 'all white' corporate America. Black Faces in White Places is a necessary tool for anyone trying to make their own magic happen.

  Malik Yoba

  White, America, Black

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• All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Party, America

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