Corporations Quotes - Page 20

• A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Business, Organization

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.124, John Wiley & Sons

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• The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.

  Andrew Jackson

  Spring, Government, Important

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.366, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

  Jane Addams

  Cities, May, Great Business

  Jane Addams, Berenice A. Carroll, Clinton F. Fink (1907). “Newer Ideals of Peace”, p.101, University of Illinois Press

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• There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Would Be

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.

  Bob Proctor

  School, Past, People

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Long, Unions, Economic

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• in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.

  Angela Davis

  Health, Mean, Venture

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• the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

  Margaret Halsey

  Government, Quality, Ashes

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

  Anita Roddick

  People, Cost, Crime

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

  Anita Roddick

  Practice, Organization, Needs

  "Business as Unusual, continued: deck here, too" by Anita Roddick, www.motherjones.com. January 19, 2001.

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• Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Financial, Institutions

  "The Professor". Interview with Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2012.

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• There is no reason why anyone in this country should be lacking health care when America has the resources right now. It would not cost much more than what we are paying right now. As a matter of fact, Americans are paying for a universal standard of care. They are just not getting it because it is all about corporations making a profit. It is not about people. Support Medicare for all.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, America, People

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• We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them. Our privacy is being strip-mined and hoarded.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Moving, Communication, Government

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• Corporate newspeak leads to corporate nothink.

  Patricia King

  Corporate

  Patricia King (1992). “Never work for a jerk!”

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• The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.

  Katharine Susannah Prichard

  Men, Giants, Might

  Katharine Susannah Prichard (1983). “The Roaring Nineties: A Story of the Gold Fields of Western Australia”

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• Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Government, People

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order". United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council, Session 24, July 01, 2013.

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• The drafting of a legally binding instrument concerning the human rights impacts of the activities of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises has been proposed. Such a treaty or convention should strengthen the United Nations “protect, respect and remedy” framework of the Guiding Principles, which were unanimously endorsed by the Human Rights Council in 2011.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Impact, Rights, Negative

  "Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities". Statement at the Workshop at the Human Rights Council, www.ohchr.org. March 11-12, 2014.

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• ... I think we should never underestimate the power of women's threats. If you have ever faced an angry group of women, you know that it makes one very nervous. How can we get groups of women to act in such ways as to make corporations nervous? I should like us to use this method sparingly; but it can be used.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Thinking, Groups, Use

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• ... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Government, Community, Alternatives

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• The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.

  Steve Jobs

  Roots, Apples, People

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• I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.

  Ezra Klein

  Party, Government, Bigs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Decision, Voting

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Sugar, Too Much

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Important, Use

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

  Norman Mailer

  Running, Country, America

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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