Corporate Quotes - Page 17

• ...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. Corporate Globalization-or shall we call it by its name?-Imperialism-needs a press that pretends to be free. It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Dream, Fighting

  California River Watch 2011 Annual Statement, criverwatch.org. 2011.

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• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  Hank Johnson

  Taken, Government, People

  "A Letter to My Ancestor: Frederick Douglass" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2013.

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• Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

  Zig Ziglar

  Moving, Maturity, Makeup

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• When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Sleep, Kids

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.26, Penguin

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• I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Believe, Mean, People

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Discovery, Media

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make it a matter of necessity to give to the sovereign - that is, to the Government, which represents the people as a whole - some effective power of supervision over their corporate use. In order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign strong enough to control its conduct.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Government, Order

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Ultimate Collection: Memoirs, History Books, Biographies, Essays, Speeches &Executive Orders: America and the World War, The Ancient Irish Sagas, The Naval War of 1812, Hero Tales From American History, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, History as Literature...”, p.3320, Madison & Adams Press

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• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Play, Justice, Frustrated

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• We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Thinking, Years, Demand

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• You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

  Raimund Abraham

  Office, Desire, Needs

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• I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  America, Important, Development

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• I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

  George W. Romney

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Citizens

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• For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.

  Mark Walter

  Believe, Wife, Giving

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• We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.

  Sarah Hall

  Sea, Rivers, Water

  Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Dream, Ideas, Lunch

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• When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Media, America

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• Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

  Nellie McKay

  Independent, Oasis, Radio

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

  James P. Hoffa

  Impact, Generations, Taxes

  "Tax Dodging by Big Businesses Hurts Our Kids and Is Not Sustainable" by James P. Hoffa, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2014.

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• The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Giving, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

  Andrea Hirata

  World, Mathematics, Bohemian

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• When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.

  Randall L. Stephenson

  Iphone, America, Cio

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• In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

  Jackson Katz

  Sports, Winning, Media

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• Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Rights, Media, Culture

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• For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment.  Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.

  John Bonifaz

  Rights, Years, Citizens United

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• The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.

  Hollis Stacy

  Party, America, People

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