Corporate Quotes - Page 33

• Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Wall, Greed, Receiving

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Voice, Buying, Influence

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2015

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• Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Trying, Together, Reputation

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Leadership, Style, Engagement

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• Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Media, Ideas

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• Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility, Community, Who Cares

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• It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Two, America

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• Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Opportunity, Government, Long

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Needs, Veils, Behavior

  Interview with Jeff Sweat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

  Michael E. Mann

  Environmental, Climate, Host

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2012.

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• Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.

  Marlee Matlin

  Office, Hollywood, Different

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• There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

  Moby

  Keys, Rights, Differences

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• I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

  Michael Moore

  Media, Whining, Knows

  Interview with Andrew Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2002.

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• The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, People, Economy

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• Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Boards, Needs

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• All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Party, America

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• I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.

  Michael Moore

  Hours In The Day, Enemy, Bucks

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• Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, America, Want

  "DealBook’s Interview With Michael Moore". dealbook.nytimes.com. September 23, 2009.

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• The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

  Tom Morello

  Media, America, Way

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• America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

  Bill Moyers

  Cutting, America, One Direction

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• The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Dirty, Men, Naughty

  "What class warfare really looks like" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com.

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• Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Book, Moving, Numbers

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• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  War, Leader, Victory

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• The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

  Ralph Nader

  Stifling, Consumers, Behalf

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• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  Ralph Nader

  Congress, Consumers, Nations

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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