Corporations Quotes - Page 16

• I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

  Joshua Ferris

  Fashion, Believe, Thinking

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• To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.

  James Grant

  Business, War, People

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• Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

  John Maeda

  Focus, Razors, Lines

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• For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Jobs, Way, Week

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• In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, Decision, Liberty

  United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson), Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Proclamation, & C”, p.179

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• The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

  Ray Davies

  Rock And Roll, Lines, Musician

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• The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

  Greg Kinnear

  Thinking, People, Car

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• The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

  Keith Olbermann

  People, Together, Want

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• Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Buying, Management, Sophisticated

  "David vs. Goliath: Internet Entrepreneurship vs. Corporate America" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2011.

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• President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

  Rob Portman

  Mom, Support, President

  "Portman Gives GOP Weekly Address: "We're Going Broke" Under Obama". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 14, 2012.

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• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  Randy Quaid

  People, Together, Groups

  "VIDEO: Randy Quaid: Evi and I 'Cannot Function'" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.

  Arthur Rock

  Mean, Paper, Founders

  Interview, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

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• The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.

  John Redwood

  Moving, Numbers, Growth

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• In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

  Bernie Sanders

  Rights, Views, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Awareness

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• If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

  Ruth Simmons

  Boys, Thinking, Giving

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• There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

  Ruth Simmons

  Strong, Boards, Action

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• Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

  Richard Trumka

  Jobs, Air, Should Have

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

  Richard Trumka

  People, Pay, Today

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• The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

  Don Tapscott

  Play, Issues, People

  "Are Corporations People (Redux)? Why Jack Welch Is Wrong" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2012.

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• All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

  Carol Vorderman

  Home, Math, Numbers

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• Every time I do a partnership with the corporation, it's usually - I mean, it is - reflective of me and they really want who I am. They want what I've established for my brand and the respect and quality that I've established.

  Will Ferrell

  Mean, Who I Am, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Simple

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• Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

  Will Self

  Team, Party, Drinking

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.

  Richard Pascale

  Knowledge, Learning, Names

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