Corporate Quotes

• The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

  Ralph Nader

  Power, Government, People

  "Ralph Nader on the Candidates, Corporate Power and His Own Plans for 2008". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 9, 2007.

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Men, Ties, People

  Herbert Marcuse (1969). “An Essay on Liberation”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

  Rebecca Solnit

  People, Ordinary, Influence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, Hands, America

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 99, 1982.

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• We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

  Jerry Brown

  Liars, Criminals, Thieves

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• What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it.

  Christopher Peterson

  Real, Decision, Democracy

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• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Exercise, Long, Track

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• The only way the corporate Body of Christ will fulfill the mission Christ has given it is for individual Christians to have a vision for fulfilling that mission personally.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Vision, Body

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• What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

  Jim Hightower

  White, House, Politician

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 1, 2003.

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• The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

  Tom Kite

  Fun, Hate, Years

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• All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Citizens United, Levels

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• In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, World, Due Diligence

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• Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  Carl Icahn

  Democracy, Boards, Cynic

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• Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

  Ralph Goodale

  Income, Debt, Taxes

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• Over the past 60 years, marketing has moved from being product-centric (Marketing 1.0) to being consumer-centric (Marketing 2.0). Today we see marketing as transforming once again in response to the new dynamics in the environment. We see companies expanding their focus from products to consumers to humankind issues. Marketing 3.0 is the stage when companies shift from consumer-centricity to human-centricity and where profitability is balanced with corporate responsibility.

  Philip Kotler

  Responsibility, Past, Years

  Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan (2010). “Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.

  Brian Solis

  Marketing, Remember, Advertising

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• Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

  Robert McKee

  Moving, Two, Profound

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• I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

  Kalle Lasn

  World, Want, Entity

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• I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

  Joey Skaggs

  Media, Voice, Hoaxes

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• Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.

  Judi Bari

  Struggle, Practice, Class

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• What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live very high off the work, invention, and creativity of very many others. It is the Grand Larceny of our particular time in history, the Grand Larceny in which a future of freedom which could have followed the collapse of feudalism was stolen from under our noses by a new bunch of bosses doing the same old things

  Karl Hess

  Creativity, Old Things, Boss

  Karl Hess (1975). “Dear America”, William Morrow &Company

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• In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

  Antony Jay

  Corporations, Possibility, Casts

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

  Quint Studer

  Teaching, Fall, Learning

  Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.

  Steve Almond

  Powerful, Political, Lazy

  "The Joke’s on You" by Steve Almond, The Baffler, No. 20, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2012.

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