Corporations Quotes - Page 12

• Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Political, May

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

  Dale Dauten

  Opportunity, Names, Insightful

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• Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that... 'All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Strong, Jobs, New York

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• In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Funeral, United States, Doe

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.536, Random House

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• But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

  Aaron Swartz

  Book, Needs, Heritage

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.26, The New Press

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• It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Money, Media, Information Flow

  "Intrinsic Motivation Models Lead To Business Success" by Marty Zwilling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Media, Needs

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• And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, Media, Important

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.183, Zed Books

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• Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Country, Brother, Taken

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• Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Government, People

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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• Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Guy, Said

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• Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.

  Stephen Baxter

  Phones, Black, Riches

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• Wake up, America. The insurance companies took over health care. Wake up, America. The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing. Wake up, America. The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake up, America. They want to take your Social Security. Wake up, America. Multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing, good paying jobs lost. Wake up, America. We went into Iraq for oil.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Wall, Oil, Iraq

  Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Goal, Political

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• There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Political, Details

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• Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Ideas, Differences, Empowerment

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

  Vandana Shiva

  Patents, Use, Plant

  "No Patents on Seeds, a Handbook for Activists: Why and How to Fight the Patent and Seed Act". Booklet, 2005.

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• The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.

  Unknown

  Definitions, States, Fascism

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• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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• Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Eye, Rights, Giving

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.

  Matthew Freud

  Mean, Media, News

  "Fox hunt: cracks in Murdoch dynasty as TV news chief finds himself in firing line" by Andrew Clark and James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

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• The problem is that you go to the PUBLIC FOOL SYSTEM and they're NOT about training you on CONTRACTS on the PRIVATE SIDE, they're about getting you to ACCEPT PUBLIC OFFERINGS so that the schools of the corporations are in CONTROL.

  Jack Smith

  School, Offering, Training

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• American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

  Corey Clark

  Lying, Years, Idols

  "Corey Clark Tells FOX: 'Idol' Defamed Me". www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2005.

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• It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.

  Naomi Klein

  School, Hands, Oil

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• It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Income, Investing

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