Corporate Quotes - Page 6

• The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 if all these companies hadn't come in flooding and making campaign contributions and ask for people's support. That drove the debate. Every year was the allure of corporate dollars flooding into members' bank accounts.

  Mark Shields

  Years, People, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't feel sentimental about the past, but I can't help noticing how hard it has become to keep a grip on anything. Maybe it's the totalizing impact of corporate culture, maybe it's the atomizing impact of technology.

  Dana Spiotta

  Past, Technology, Impact

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

  Paul Simon

  Powerful, Thinking, Pale

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• Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Campaigns, Voters

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• It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival.

  Hiroyuki Hirano

  Book, Fighting, Survival

  Hiroyuki Hirano (2009). “JIT Implementation Manual -- The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing: Volume 1 -- The Just-In-Time Production System”, p.14, CRC Press

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• It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Powerful, Animal, Names

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• I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.

  Frank Fairfield

  People, Feels

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Play, Coachella, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values - and not just the stated ones.

  Tony Hsieh

  Thinking, People, Important

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Sides, Fundamentalism, Elites

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Two, Unions, Married

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity. We're looking for quality. Believe in better suggests intergenerational change. It suggests product innovation. It suggests something better for the future.

  Frank Luntz

  Believe, Political, Innovation

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• We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might be and most of the people that I'm photographing are selling something, you know whether they're on the front of an album cover or a magazine or they're a corporate person ready to switch companies or a doctor selling a skincare line... so I want to help them achieve that.

  Carol Friedman

  Doctors, Mirrors, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Math, June, July

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My daughter wrote a book. She is a New York Times Bestselling Author. Fabulous. Couldn't be more proud. She also has no health insurance. A 401 K? Dream on! My daughter left her stable corporate job to be a writer without dental benefits or a savings account, a.k.a. my worst nightmare.

  Kate Siegel

  Daughter, Dream, Jobs

  "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.

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• The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Law, Rights, Trying

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Thinking, World

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse.

  Sharon Gannon

  Baby, Cows, Matter

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Special You, Identity

  "(Revisiting) The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. May 9, 2014.

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• One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers at the buying point saying, 'Can you certify to me that this product is slavery-free?' And most cannot right now.

  Mira Sorvino

  Impact, Accountability, Slavery

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• I am afraid that I think both the near future environmental reality and political landscape are not looking good - and they are connected. The best tool we have for advancing environmental solutions is our democracy, and we can't currently access it because it has been so thoroughly hijacked by big corporate interests.

  Annie Leonard

  Reality, Thinking, Political

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• This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in America is going to the top 1 percent. You have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Mean, Media

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• In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and have real enduring change, it takes both a movement on the ground and an independent political party that is itself the defiance of that two-party corporate big-money control of politics.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Moving, Party

  Source: www.pqmonthly.com

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• You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Feminist, Want

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.

  Joe Biden

  Trying, President, Culture

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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