Corporate Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

  Dougray Scott

  Growing Up, Understanding, Term

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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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• I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

  Frank Luntz

  Years, Done, World

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• The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

  Fredric Jameson

  Worry, Location, Structure

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• Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

  Peter Coyote

  Kind, Currents, Prostitution

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• Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Fossils, Cost

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

  Penn Jillette

  Stupid, Doe, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Years, Environment, Persons

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• Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Support, Research

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• The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

  Ken Buck

  Income, Corporations, Disadvantages

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• We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

  Rand Paul

  Cutting, Safety, Pennies

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• I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Thinking, Track, Environmental

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• Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

  Caroline Baum

  Political, Politics, Uniforms

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• Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

  Eric Alterman

  Hysteria, Mad, Political

  "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department - and even many literary writers look and behave like young urban professionals and canny careerists.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Thinking, Media, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally, Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but "consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international political influence-peddling for its two dozen or so important corporate clients.

  Murray Rothbard

  New York, Mean, Cities

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• It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.

  Carlos Slim

  Believe, Arriving, Want

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• We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the second highest corporate rates in the world. It restricts the growth of small enterprises that need to plow capital back into their businesses and forces companies and jobs to move overseas.

  Meg Whitman

  Jobs, Moving, Growth

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• We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

  Adrienne Rich

  Greed, May, Littles

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• Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly are the very means whereby property is casting aside its privacy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Names, Organization

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Democracies Have, Australia Day

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.89, Pluto Press

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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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