Corporate Quotes - Page 21

• All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Growing Up, Cities

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I would love to be a corporate leader.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Leader

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• Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Country, Agriculture, Poor

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• By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.

  Eric Alterman

  Powerful, Military, America

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• For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

  Cornel West

  White, Government, Might

  Cornel West (2005). “Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism”, p.29, Penguin

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• Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Media, Voice

  Cornel West (2005). “Democracy matters: winning the fight against imperialism”, Penguin Classics

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• The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy.

  Robert Scheer

  Powerful, Play, Enemy

  Robert Scheer (2006). “Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush”, p.297, Akashic Books

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• While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

  Robert Kennedy

  Government, Free Market, Capitalism

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• Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

  Ralph Nader

  Washington Dc, Territory

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. February 24, 2008.

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• Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

  Alvin Toffler

  Kings, Cutting, Knights

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• Books proliferate, and occasionally sell in very large numbers, which claim to have found the rule, or small set of rules, which will guarantee business success. But business is far too complicated, far too difficult an activity to distil into a few simple commands ... It is failure rather than success which is the distinguishing feature of corporate life.

  Paul Ormerod

  Book, Simple, Numbers

  Paul Ormerod (2010). “Why Most Things Fail”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

  Anita Roddick

  Church, Behaviour, Mosques

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• The makeup of the drivers has changed a lot with so many young drivers coming and a lot of the legends moving on. Compared to when I started, it's gone through a lot of changes. The cars have changed a lot and the approach to racing. There are a lot more employees. It's become a much bigger business and more corporate.

  Matt Kenseth

  Moving, Makeup, Car

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My plan has all that. It's energy independence. It will help our economy. It's a significant tax cut for corporations, including automatic expensing. It's bringing all those profits home from Europe without any taxation. It's lowering our corporate - or our personal rate to 28 percent, the same rate that Ronald Reagan had.

  Sean Hannity

  Home, Cutting, Europe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Two, Political

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.11, Seven Stories Press

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• I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

  Stevie Wonder

  Thinking, Degrees, Want

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• No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.

  James Surowiecki

  Giving, Decision, Mind

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.220, Anchor

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• Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

  James Altucher

  Jobs, Home, Years

  "My Minimalism Manifesto" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2012.

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• Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

  Douglas Conant

  Communication, Math, Issues

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• Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

  Bill Gates

  Support, Understanding, Levels

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• What college boils down to is a brand name stamped on the graduate for the benefit of corporate consumers.

  Theodore Beale

  College, Names, Benefits

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• In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Greed, Rewards

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• Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

  Bernie Sanders

  Childhood, United States, Salary

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• Abandoning who people think you are and becoming who you really are is a simple concept, but sometimes it is very hard to do. It isn't easy to give up others' ideas of who you are. Yet the key to success is to discover your uniqueness and to exploit it. Your authentic persona, either personal or corporate, is the key to your prosperity.

  Larry Winget

  Giving Up, Simple, Thinking

  Larry Winget (2006). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.108, Penguin

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• We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us without violence. It will begin with the self. It will spread to the workplace. It will turn our corporate masters into our servants. It will free us of government's tyranny. The revolution will spread to all corners of the nation, and at last, we shall be free.

  Gerry Spence

  Government, Self, Liberty

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