Corporate Quotes - Page 13

• You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting."

  Chris Gardner

  Courage, Passionate, Want

  "Chris Gardner Survival Guide: extended interview". Interview with William Welsh, washingtontechnology.com. October 19, 2006.

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• The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

  Ricardo Semler

  Giving, Way, Profit

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• The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Identity, Generations, Violence

  "The Book of Probes: Marshall McLuhan". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 201, 2011.

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• The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Generations, Situation, Behinds

  "The Glenn Gould reader" by Glenn Gould, (p. 345), 1984.

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• It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

  Gordon Bethune

  Silly, Sound, Culture

  Gordon Bethune (1999). “From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback”, Wiley

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• For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Leader, Peers

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

  Jerry Brown

  White, House, Criminals

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• The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is now at the disposal of these oligarchic corporate structures run by the 1%.

  Jerry Brown

  Running, Military, Agency

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• [Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Unique, Practice, Skills

  "The Problem with Programming". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. November 28, 2006.

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• Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Church, Matter, Kind

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• Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

  Charles A. Reich

  Community, Destruction, States

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

  Charles A. Reich

  Opening Up, States, Should

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

  Charles A. Reich

  Suffering, Quality, Consciousness

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

  Charles A. Reich

  Powerful, Law, Political

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots.

  Conrad Black

  Fads, Zealot, Governance

  "The World According to Conrad Black". www.thestar.com. March 11, 2007.

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• The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.

  Thomas Frank

  Real, War, Party

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, April 1, 2007.

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• Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attitude, Phrases, Opinion

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 18, 1949.

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• We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Responsibility, Government

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Country, Independent, Media

  "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, April 21, 2005.

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• A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

  Michael Lewis

  Confusing, Credit, Default

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

  Bruce Schneier

  Culture, Problem, Harder

  "Visa and Amex Drop CardSystems". Cryptogram Newsletter, www.schneier.com. August 15, 2005.

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• At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

  John Paul Stevens

  Government, Self, People

  "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310". United States Supreme Court case No. 08-205, caselaw.findlaw.com. January 21, 2010.

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• Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.

  Brock Yates

  Events, Logos, Nascar

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• My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source

  Thom Yorke

  Loyalty, Selfish, Viruses

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• Perhaps one reason that many working parents do not agitate for collective reform, such as more governmental or corporate child care, is that the parents fear, deep down, that to share responsibility for child rearing is to abdicate it.

  Faye J Crosby

  Children, Responsibility, Working Parents

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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