Corporate Quotes - Page 14

• Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Military, Hype, Principles

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• The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

  David Harvey

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Form

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

  Jim Stanford

  Circles, Trying, Way

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

  Ellen Willis

  Art, Demand, Messages

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.

  Ellen Willis

  Government, Ideas, Lines

  "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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• In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Running, Fall, Mean

  "Why IT Doesn't Matter Anymore". hbswk.hbs.edu. June 09, 2003.

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• Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Commitment, Community, Principles

  Speech at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, at the Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, July 05, 2007.

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• In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."

  Herbert Schiller

  Example, Infringement, Rejected

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.

  Herbert Schiller

  Expression, Marketing, Example

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

  Herbert Schiller

  Freedom Of Speech, Example, Democratic

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

  Herbert Schiller

  Mean, Accountability, Deregulation

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  War, Lying, Media

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• The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

  John Perry Barlow

  Differences, Privacy, Shame

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• Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Government, Wings, Two

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• Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.

  Scott McCloud

  Book, Average, Dollars

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• I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Responsibility, Organization

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• Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Children, Real, Community

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• Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

  Walter Reuther

  America, Politics, Profit Sharing

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• It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.

  Eric Sevareid

  Army, Erosion, Issues

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• The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Thinking, Often Is

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.

  Immortal Technique

  Independent, Thinking, America

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Contemplative Life, Hands

  "Junot Díaz: a life in books" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Males, Slave

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• Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control.

  Joel Bakan

  Progressive, Embrace, Resources

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