Corporations Quotes - Page 15

• Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and, wherever you go and whatever you do, a new global labor movement is coming to find you.

  Andy Stern

  Justice, Community, Movement

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• Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.'

  Michele Simon

  Growth, Economic, Grows

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• Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.

  Henry Demarest Lloyd

  Soul, Cooperation, Love Each Other

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• The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The global power shift". TED conference, www.ted.com. December 2011.

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• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Country, School, World Religions

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• There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

  Walther Rathenau

  Men, Race, Self

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• Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to keep your net worth in shares of those corporations that have proven to have the widest profit margins and the most rapidly increasing profits. Earning power is likely to continue to be valuable, especially if diversified among many nations.

  John Templeton

  Years, Profit Margin, Lasts

  "Sir John Templeton: Financial Chaos and Investing" by Janet Tavakoli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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• The Catholic church is the biggest financial power,    wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a    greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution,    corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole    globe.

  Avro Manhattan

  Government, Catholic, Church

  Avro Manhattan (1972). “The Vatican billions: two thousand years of wealth accumulation from St. Peter to the space age”

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• This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporations…This may be out in the desert today, but tomorrow it could be in your backyard…Already over a dozen projects are proposed in San Diego and Imperial County.

  Robert Scheid

  Land, Giving, Backyards

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• Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources. The aim is to align as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, corporations and society.

  Adrian Cadbury

  Goal, Accountability, Balance

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• Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Believe, Government, Media

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• Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

  Daniel Suarez

  Simple, Names, Political

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.42, Penguin

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• Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.

  Don Tapscott

  Running, Age, Wealth

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• Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them

  Jonathan Barnbrook

  Lying, Want, Designer

  Jonathan Barnbrook (2007). “Barnbrook Bible: The Graphic Design of Jonathan Barnbrook”, Booth-Clibborn Editions

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• We live in a nation where corporations are people.

  Lizz Winstead

  People, Nations

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• All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.

  Derrick Jensen

  Simple, Suffering Of Others, Want

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• I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, Texas, People

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• It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

  Howard Schmidt

  Mom, Dollars, Bars

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• Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

  Warren Rudman

  People, Speech, Opinion

  "Republicans losing their way on campaign finance reform" by Warren Rudman, www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2010.

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• As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on coloniz­ing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.

  David Korten

  People, Gains, Aliens

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• Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, Army, House

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.177, Harmony

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• Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Personality, Kind

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

  L. Neil Smith

  Tired, Government, Media

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• Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Ideas, Suggestions

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• Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

  Barry Lopez

  Technology, Rivers, Political

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.65, Open Road Media

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