Corporations Quotes - Page 36

• The most disturbing part of working on all these issues is the amount of money spent by corporations to confuse, mislead and misinform the public. This is one of the reasons why we are always taking two steps forward and three steps back.

  Laurie David

  Two, Issues, Three

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Nurse, Reform

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My plan has all that. It's energy independence. It will help our economy. It's a significant tax cut for corporations, including automatic expensing. It's bringing all those profits home from Europe without any taxation. It's lowering our corporate - or our personal rate to 28 percent, the same rate that Ronald Reagan had.

  Sean Hannity

  Home, Cutting, Europe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market.

  Harry Magdoff

  Goal, United States, World

  Harry Magdoff (1966). “Economic Aspects of U.S. Imperialism”

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• I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.

  Warren Mundine

  Machines, World, Wales

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Attitude, Church Today, Catholic

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Get a job and when you earn a little bit of money, then you can do more good. Then bringing your values doesn't mean you have to compromise yourself. You got to get over this idea that you can't work for a big corporation, or for big oil or bigger pharma, because actually, those are some of the great jobs are and you can do good there.

  Dana Perino

  Jobs, Mean, Ideas

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Industrialization

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.44

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• Making the logo twice the size is often a good thing to do, because most advertisements are deficient in brand identification. Showing the clients' faces is also a better stratagem than it may sound, because the public is more interested in personalities than in corporations. Some clients can be projected as human symbols of their own products.

  David Ogilvy

  Personality, Sound, May

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.

  James Surowiecki

  Giving, Decision, Mind

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.220, Anchor

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• All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Smart, Lying

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.121, Knopf

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• I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Order, Has Beens

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• If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

  Noam Chomsky

  Honesty, Creating, Working Conditions

  "Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions.

  Laurie Garrett

  Organization, America, Return

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• The core corporation is ... increasingly a façade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world.

  Robert Reich

  Groups, World, Units

  Robert B. Reich (2010). “The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalis”, p.81, Vintage

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• The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

  Michael Kinsley

  Silence, Speech, Persons

  "Michael Kinsley: The solution to money in politics" by Michael Kinsley, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2014.

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• There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Information

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2014). “Changing Planes: Stories”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

  Tim Wu

  Technology, Typical, Hobbies

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Successful, Mcdonalds, News

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• The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

  Bill Gates

  Sound, Needs, News

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• This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Class, America

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• I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Church, Taxation, Lasts

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• [T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Powerful, Humble, Men

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.362, Best Books on

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• If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

  Harvey Mackay

  Gossip, World, Might

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• The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Differences, Feet

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