Corporations Quotes - Page 37

• Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.'

  Michael Moore

  Responsibility, Law, Way

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• I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Artist, Underdog, Way

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

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• A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

  Wendell Berry

  Numbers, Moral, Allegiance

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.185, Counterpoint Press

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• Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Army, Cowboy

  "The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys". Interview with John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2010.

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• What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

  Inga Muscio

  Thinking, Years, What If

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.277, Seal Press

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• Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Integrity, Law, Political

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.191, Penguin

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• Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Opposites, Government, Looks

  "Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. May 7, 2012.

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• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  Hans Haacke

  Interesting, Effort, Allies

  "The Way We Live Now: 3-26-00: Questions for Hans Haacke; School for Scandal" by Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 26, 2000.

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• I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Hate, Thinking

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• Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sleep, Men, Imagination

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.23, Vintage

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• You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Church, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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• I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.

  Amar Bose

  Giving, Maximizing, Way

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• If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Decision, Unions

  "Lou Dobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2003.

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• Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

  Robert Breault

  Squares, Trying, Cubicles

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• I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Book, Ministry, Nonprofits

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• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  Lee Iacocca

  Block, Believe, Class

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• I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mean, Giving, Different

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• 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

  United States, Incentives, Impossible

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• 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

  Historical, Growth, Causes

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• One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

  David Rockefeller

  Business, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• 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

  Media, Moguls, West

  "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

  Nina Bawden

  People, Safety, Would Be

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• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Radio, Majority, Television

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• Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Organization, People, Helping

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• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Lying, Government, Two

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