logo

Quotes About Corporate

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find. It is being sucked out of the world to make way for the future of uncontrolled markets and huge investment potential. The future becomes insistent. This is why something will happen soon, maybe today…to correct the acceleration of time. Bring nature back to normal, more or less.
~ Don DeLillo
It was an evil thing to consider, allying myself with the barest parts of mass awareness, land policed by the king's linguists, by technicians in death-system control, corporate disease consultants, profiteers of the fetus industry.
~ Don DeLillo
he involved in the bankruptcy of that plastics factory? Ten years ago? Fifteen?' Of course, that was where Brunetti had read the name: the factory up near
~ Donna Leon
A corporate state run by dictators who call themselves servants of the people they enslave.
~ Jack Campbell
After an earthquake in China, the generous tobacco companies stepped in to pay for the rebuilding of the area's schools. However, there is an ethical question to be asked here. Is it right that a school should now be called 'Sichuan Tobacco Project Hope Primary School'? And furthermore, should the company have been allowed to paint a huge message on the school's walls which says Tobacco can help you become an achiever? I'm sure you can guess the answer...
~ Jack Goldstein
Make it mandatory that all political bigwigs, corporate captains, media owners and medical chiefs will be vaccinated for Covid in the first phase, then very soon news anchors will start saying that that corona virus effect is over worldwide and now there is no need of any vaccination, mask wearing, any further lockdown, sanitiser using and social distancing.
~ Unknown
Damned Weyland-Yutani piece of crap," she said.
~ James A. Moore
Google puts itself first. So does every other company on the planet. There is no requirement that you have to put yourself second. Indeed, why would you?
~ James A. Whittaker
Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce. But the soul refuses to be harnessed; it knows nothing of Day Timers and deadlines and P&L statements. The soul longs for passion, for freedom, for life.
~ John Eldredge
The business world—where the majority of American men live and die—requires a man to be efficient and punctual. Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.
~ John Eldredge
Global laissez-faire is not a conspiracy of corporate America. It is a tragedy - one of several that have occurred in the twentieth century - in which an hubristic ideology runs aground on enduring human needs that it has failed to comprehend.
~ John Gray
lay in wait to ambush the corporate mouthpieces sent down to protect the treasured assets of Old Potomac Casualty. They tried to defend their actions by hiding behind the field reports, all of which clearly proved the damages in question were caused by water, not wind. One executive, startled by the ferocity of the attack by
~ John Grisham
his goal was $500,000. For the individuals—$5,000 maximum gift—Rinehart had a list of a thousand corporate executives and senior managers of companies in industries that attracted litigation from trial lawyers. Chief among these were insurance companies, and he would collect a million dollars from his contacts there. Carl Trudeau had given him the names of two hundred executives of companies controlled by the Trudeau
~ John Grisham
Since 1980, the salaries of executives in FTSE 100 companies have risen by 4,000% compared to 300% for their employees.
~ John Lloyd
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
~ Barry Commoner
Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.
~ Bruce Henderson
I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
~ Lee Child
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.
~ Don Nickles
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
~ G.K. Chesterton
We need ritual because it is an expression of the fact that we recognize the difficulty of creating a different and special kind of community. A community that doesn't have a ritual cannot exist. A corporate community is not a community. It's a conglomeration of individuals in the service of an insatiable soulless entity.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
The media have undertaken a similar reconsideration. Since the late 1980s, commentators have filled columns and airwaves with glib chatter about globalization, as if it were merely a matter of bits and bytes and corporate cost-cutting.
~ Unknown
The goats were replaced by two hundred bright yellow American trash compactor trucks, provided under a $200 million contract with Waste Management, Inc.
~ John Perkins
Joined by retired Democratic senator George Mitchell and former Senate aide Charlie Scheeler, DLA Piper sought to protect the avaricious interests of its clients, including one of the retailers identified with the factory collapse (Gap), at the expense of the people and economy of Bangladesh.1
~ John Perkins
You know anything about farms?" "Worked on one, up in Marshall," Virgil said. "One of the big corporate places owned by Hostess. Harvest time, I'd be out picking Ding Dongs and Ho Hos—we didn't do Twinkies; those were mostly up along the Red River. We'd box them up, ship them off to the 7-Elevens. Hard work, but honest. I used the money to buy BBs, so I could feed my family. Most of the local workers have been pushed out by illegals, now.
~ John Sandford