Corporate Quotes - Page 3

• The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.

  Robert Jensen

  Patriotic, White, Logic

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• People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

  Michael Copps

  Sorry, People, Memorial

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• Ideally, you will develop strategic response to your place in the corporate lifecycle to identify new paths of strategic renewal. You will look for new growth curves that can be started early enough to replace declining products and you will try to identify whole new curves that will take the organisation to new levels of growth as a whole.

  Max McKeown

  Curves, Growth, Trying

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.125, Pearson UK

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• Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

  Zeena Schreck

  Religious, Powerful, Battle

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• Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Remember, Profit

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• I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

  Sara Sheridan

  Erosion, Issues, Liberty

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• Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

  Jay Samit

  War, Lying, Fighting

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.

  Chris Hedges

  Crush, Party, Two

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• In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Equality, Health Education

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• 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 coloniz­ing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.

  David Korten

  People, Corporations, Gains

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• Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Relax, Influence, Economic

  Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.21, New World Library

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• What does the world need that you can provide?”
Express your social mission, whether it’s cause marketing, volunteering, culture, environmental initiatives, sustainable products, or corporate philanthropy
Start before scale: make a commitment, take small steps and then scale when you’re ready
Internalize and share your social mission
Be unfailingly transparent – “If you’re not scared by what you’re saying, you’re not sharing enough

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Commitment, Volunteer, Marketing

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• We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

  Bill Cahan

  Decision, Groups, World

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• The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Media, Sick

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• I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

  Geraldine Laybourne

  Numbers, Office, Window

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• We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

  Cornel West

  Greed, Decision, Goes On

  "Cornel West, A Fighter, Angers Obama Supporters". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Michele Norris, www.npr.org. October 24, 2011.

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• There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Single, Way, Management

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• Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.

  Peter Buffett

  Hands, Leader, Important

  "The Charitable-Industrial Complex" by Peter Buffett, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.

  Cynthia McKinney

  War, People, Gathering

  "Run, Cynthia, run" by Derek Wall, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2008.

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• There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.

  Larry Merchant

  Thinking, Boxing, Body

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• Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

  Immortal Technique

  Children, Lying, News

  Song: The 4th Branch, 2003

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• A network marketing business is based upon the leaders pulling people up, while a traditional corporate or government business is based upon only promoting a few and keeping the masses of employees content with a steady paycheck.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Government, People, Leader

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• We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Work, Women

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• There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

  Michael Gartner

  Passion, Personality, Decision

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• The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

  Jerry Brown

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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