Corporations Quotes - Page 5

• Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

  Andrew Jackson

  Hands, Over You, Privilege

  Andrew Jackson (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren”, p.1525, Wildside Press LLC

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• Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Molly Ivins

  Heart, Giving, Salary

  "Labor’s Fight Is OUR Fight" by Dave Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

  Daymond John

  Want, Bigs, Ifs

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• Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

  Adam McKay

  Would Be, Definitions, States

  "Citizens United : A Week Later" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

  Ralph Nader

  Administration, Sympathetic, Transnational Corporations

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• To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.

  Howard Schultz

  Entrepreneur, Leader, Challenges

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it.

  Eric Kierans

  Sometimes, Capitalism, Knows

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• There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Remains, Activity

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.174, Cornell University Press

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• And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

  Brian De Palma

  Information, Source, Doubtful

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.186, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Business, Ambition

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• The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

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• Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance.

  Ben Cohen

  Lying, Military, Fighting

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• Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

  Tom Scholz

  Letting Go, Running, World

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• We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

  John Battelle

  Play, Feudal System, Roles

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• At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

  Frank Chodorov

  Widows, Lines, Pay

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.52, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We have the State Department working together with Google, MTV, MSNBC, Facebook, all of these - all of these giant corporations. Google now has two executives that we know of that were charged to help this revolution.

  Glenn Beck

  Mtv, Two, Google

  "Beck Isn't Sure If His Theory About Google, Egypt, State Department, And MTV Is 'Sinking In'". "The Glenn Beck Program", www.mediamatters.org. February 15, 2011.

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• The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.

  James Gleick

  Taken, Feet, Acting

  1994 In the NewYork Times Magazine, 1 May

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• Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the idea of each according to his or her abilities, each according to his or her needs - in solving a problem - is actually the only thing that works. And in situations of disaster, there are often communistic notions of improvisation, where you basically exchange hierarchies and all of a sudden all those things that are luxuries that you can't afford, you have them in an emergency.

  David Graeber

  Ideas, Luxury, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Democracy, Might, Limits

  Fareed Zakaria (2007). “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.

  Edward Said

  Thinking, Issues, Embarrassing Questions

  "Representation of the Intellectual". Book by Edward Said, 1994.

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• Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.

  Jim Hightower

  Real, Party, Government

  "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attitude, Years, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.

  Michael Cera

  Thinking, Hands, Stubborn

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

  Akio Morita

  Fate, Healthy, Feelings

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 103), 1986.

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• To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Effort, Would Be

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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