Corporate Quotes - Page 36

• We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Goodbye, Needs, Methodology

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2013

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• The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

  Bill Gates

  Communication, News, Hierarchy

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• Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere is this link manifest so strongly as with the problem of hunger.

  Arnold Hiatt

  Numbers, Growing, Links

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• Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.

  Gay Mitchell

  Motivation, Creativity, People

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• The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

  Billy Graham

  Integrity, Fall, Home

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Fate, Greed

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Welfare Programs, Energy, United States

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• Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as determined as any terrestrial corporate frontman to prevent a successful conclusion to the climate talks. How I know? Because every time anyone gets together to try to prevent global climate breakdown, He swaths the rich, densely habited parts of the world with snow and ice, while leaving obscurer places to cook.

  George Monbiot

  Running, Successful, Ice

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• Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.

  Ralph Nader

  Wife, House, Feminist

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• Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Political, Economics

  Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy and Education”, p.146, Psychology Press

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• Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources. Capital, in corporate hands, can move anywhere and thus demand and get the utmost in concessions and privileges as well as the freedom to operate in the interest of ever-increasing wealth and assets.

  Eric Kierans

  Moving, Hands, Land

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• This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation.

  Eric Kierans

  Competition, Growth, Corporations

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• Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

  David Suzuki

  Nature, Government, Community

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• The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will.

  Paul Krugman

  Gains, Expansion, Ordinary

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• All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

  Michael Ruppert

  Media, Enemy, Firsts

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• What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Environmental, Needs

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

  James C. Collins

  Smart, Self, People

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• I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For most businesses there are both compelling reasons to be responsible and compelling statistics that validate that responsible businesses do better according to traditional financial metrics. Of course, how you define "responsible" is somewhat of a conundrum.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Responsibility, Thinking

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• ...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Responsibility, Government

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One)". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Real, Responsibility

  "Sustainability is central to survival" by Jonathan Porritt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2006.

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• The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

  Tony Blair

  Business, Responsibility, Recognition

  "A cringing appeasement of the rich and the powerful" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.

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• There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn’t work in corporate America. It’s not an excuse, but it does help explain

  Maurice Clarett

  Growing Up, Attitude, Character

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• A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.

  Kevin Carson

  Rights, Foundation, Would Be

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• Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

  Tammy Bruce

  Responsibility, Exercise, Degrees

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.146, Crown Forum

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• Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

  Bennie Thompson

  Business, Challenges, Faces

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