Corporate Quotes - Page 15

• [The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Culture, Taste

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• (H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.

  Pat Buchanan

  Law, Careers, Judging

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• Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language.

  Lisa Belkin

  Names, Identity, Insult

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• I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

  Dean Karnazes

  Jobs, School, College

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• We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hands, Balance, Mob Rule

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

  Paddy Considine

  Art, Thinking, People

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• ... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Supportive, Analysis

  Noam Chomsky (1989). “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies”, p.10, Pluto Press

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• Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

  Lois Wyse

  Long, Dull, Too Much

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s”, p.126, Crown Business

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• [On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

  Gloria Steinem

  Baby, Military, Real

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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

  Jennifer James

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

  Helen Keller

  Business, Self, Oligarchy

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• People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.

  Joan Larkin

  Taken, People, Giving

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• When I interview people, I look at their values. I always say that the best chance of success is if the individual's values are aligned with the corporate values.

  Paul Polman

  People, Looks, Interviews

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own profits and not the wellbeing of the animals they're slaughtering, or the land and the water they're using or abusing, or the workforce they're exploiting or even the people eating it.

  Robert Kenner

  Animal, Hands, Land

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.

  Joyelle McSweeney

  Space, Body, Internet

  "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.

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• corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

  Arianna Huffington

  Business, America, Government

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.3, Crown

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• Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

  Arianna Huffington

  Party, Political, Corruption

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.8, Crown

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• corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fabric, Globalization, Social

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.77, Haymarket Books

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• It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.

  Faith Popcorn

  Soul, Popcorn, Enough

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.124, BookBaby

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

  Anita Roddick

  People, Cost, Corporations

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

  Amy Goodman

  Hate, Media, People

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• Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Opportunity, Men, Careers

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.304, Basic Books

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• Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

  Anne Roiphe

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Corporate newspeak leads to corporate nothink.

  Patricia King

  Corporations

  Patricia King (1992). “Never work for a jerk!”

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• Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts may be growing rapidly, others may be stagnating, others may be in steep decline.

  Peter Dicken

  May, Patterns, Growing

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.250, SAGE

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