Quotes About Corporate

The corporate myth is over. If you've spent years climbing the corporate ladder, have you ever stopped to notice the view? What view, you ask? The rear end of the person in front of you. That's what you get to look forward to. If that's the way you want to view the rest of your life, then this book probably isn't for you. But if you are sick and tired of looking at someone else's behind, then read on.

My highly educated dad always encouraged me to land a good job with a strong corporation. He spoke of the virtues of "working your way up the corporate ladder." He didn't understand that, by relying solely on a paycheck from a corporate employer, I would be a docile cow ready for milking.

My highly educated dad always encouraged me to land a good job with a strong corporation. He spoke of the virtues of "working your way up the corporate ladder." He didn't understand that, by relying solely on a paycheck from a corporate employer, I would be a docile cow ready for milking. When I told my rich dad of my father's advice, he only chuckled. "Why

I still play in corporate America. I protect the suits that want flashy muscle. Something exotic to impress their friends about what a big shot they are. You do the knife act on command? I asked. He shrugged. Sometimes. I hope it pays well, I said. He smiled. It either pays well or I don't do it. I may be their token Indian but I'm a rich token Indian.

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

We need a cybersecurity renaissance in this Country that promotes cyber hygiene and a security centric corporate culture applied and continuously reinforced by peer pressure

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

The rebel militias, the Congo's African neighbors, and many of their corporate allies have little interest in ending the country's Balkanization. They prefer a cash-in-suitcases economy to a taxed and regulated one that would give all citizens a real share of the profits from natural resources. For

Take facsimile, for example. Over the past two decades, the facsimile has become an indispensable part of every company's communication portfolio. Americans will send 65 billion pages of faxes this year, more than 230 per person. And 50 percent of all international telephone calls are now fax calls.

Everything that the coils of Pentex touched, everything it produced, was corrupt or toxic.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

The Creatives, she calls them, because she's not one; she's one of the Suits. I like the sound of it. Like there might be a rumble later.

Funny, how the American team appealed to so many people because it was unsullied by money, and selfishness and corporate fingerprints, and yet when Chastain removed her shirt the old cynicism returned immediately. Surely, many thought and wrote, she had a deal with Nike to flash her bra and to make her body a living, breathing mannequin.

Billion dollar bonuses turned rules into polite suggestions.

A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House are getting away literally with murder.

Our economy is built on the backs of slaves we keep in other countries, like China, India, Mexico, any third world country with a cheap labor force where we don't have to see them but where we can enjoy the fruits of their labor. This American Corp. is probably the biggest slave owner in the world.

I refer to the view that we have no alternatives to the models of corporate capitalism, social democratic or Soviet socialism, or technocratic "fascism with a smiling face." The popularity of this view is largely due to the fact that little effort has been made to study the feasibility of entirely new social models and to experiment with them.

A large rubber company was told it must provide proof that it had no Jewish employees before it could submit bids to municipalities.

a strong and positive corporate culture is absolutely essential if dual reporting and decision-making by peers are to work.

This is why promotion from within tends to be the approach favored by corporations with strong corporate cultures. Bring young people in at relatively low-level, well-defined jobs with low CUA factors, and over time they will share experiences with their peers, supervisors, and subordinates and will learn the values, objectives, and methods of the organization. They will gradually accept, even flourish in, the complex world of multiple bosses and peer decision-making.

In my world, people are always plotting. You have no idea of all the crimes people in business commit every day. Like it was nothing. Or there's a set of special rules for them. Remember when Bush made that whole speech about 'corporate ethics' last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron or WorldCom is an aberration? It's only the tip. Business is a religion. Probably the only one practiced all over the world.