Corporations Quotes - Page 14

• I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Dolphins, Definitions, Slides

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.305, Serpent's Tail

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• I know Microsoft, I know they were only doing things because they thought they were long-reaching and long-thinking. But the world we live in now is that we have to realise, especially if you're a big corporation, if you make one step wrong, the world will leap on you, and unfairly, very unfairly, they will judge you.

  Peter Molyneux

  Thinking, Long, Judging

  "Xbox One backlash has been 'unfair', says Peter Molyneux". Interview with Hugh Langley, www.techradar.com. August 12, 2013.

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• In the U.S., we've given corporations all the powers and freedoms of an individual but with none of the responsibility. Corporations need to be giving back to their communities just as much as they're taking away.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Responsibility, Giving, Community

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• The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Jobs, Hard Work, Long

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• Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.

  Umair Haque

  Country, Business, Yesterday

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• I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Powerful, Issues

  Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.

  Marc Benioff

  Business, Believe, Thinking

  "On the Record: Marc Benioff". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2006.

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• The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives. When the temptation is to work twice as hard instead of saying, "We have accomplished our objectives, we have to think again."

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Thinking, Temptation

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• Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting enough to eat is a requirement of life; life's purpose, one would hope, is somewhat broader and more challenging. Likewise with business and profit.

  Kenneth Mason

  Business, Challenges, Purpose

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• I'm a man without a corporation.

  Robert Duvall

  Work, Men

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• We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  College, America, Democracy

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• What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Long, Investing

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• I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

  Dave Barry

  Expansion, Dollars, Use

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• Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.

  Seth Godin

  Joy, Consistency, Humanity

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• It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Government, Conspiracy, Tyranny

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• The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.

  George Monbiot

  Powerful, Taken, Government

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• The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Views, Media, Outlets

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• Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated with US government support. The linkage is not accidental; rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough. Client fascism often improves the business climate for American corporations, quite generally the guiding factor in foreign policy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Violation Of Human Rights, Government

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• This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations Are Not People!' Wow, I thought we were past the point in this country where some people aren't people just because they have different color skin or different religion or were born in a lawyer's office, only exist on paper, have no soul and can never die.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Fighting, Past

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• Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

  Stephen Colbert

  Rivers, Jail, People

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• It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's time for us to look at the practices of corporations and holding them accountable for violations of law which often go unnoticed because there is very little regulation.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Rights, Law, Practice

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• You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

  Bill Moyers

  Long, People, Democracy

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• Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Long, People

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• I still do not understand how a corporation can have person-hood if it has no soul and never dies.

  Jon Stewart

  Soul, Hood, Persons

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• Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Corruption, Social, Obligation

  Speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, May 19, 2005.

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