Corporations Quotations

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.

I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.

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

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

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.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

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.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

We live in a nation where corporations are people.

Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

Women will change the corporation more than we expect.

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

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

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.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.

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.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

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

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation does not describe itself as 'we,' nor as 'people,' nor as 'ourselves.' Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any 'posterity.'

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.

I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

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.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

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.

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.

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.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

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

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

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

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.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

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.

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.

Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759(still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

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

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.