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Quotes About Corporate

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.
~ John le Carre
Der Papst ist der einzige Konzern-Vize, der seinen Chef nie zu sehen bekommt. Nicht einmal bei der Weihnachtsfeier.
~ Oliver Hassencamp
The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.
~ David Letterman
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
~ Steve Earle
I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
~ Nick Cave
Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.
~ Andy Stern
Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.
~ Thomas Pogge
Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
~ E. B. White
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
~ Hank Johnson
Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
~ Vandana Shiva
I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings.
~ Carl Icahn
We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.
~ Wayne Pacelle
We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care.
~ Wendell Potter
General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
~ Kathleen Sebelius
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.
~ Cornel West
Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.
~ David Shenk
By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.
~ Richard Stallman
I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
~ Steven Wright
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
~ Arthur Hailey
How would we get corporate sponsorship if we were just a bunch of thugs?
~ Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Paul's goal is the transformation of the community that will turn from self-centeredness to a corporate existence shaped primarily by the love exhibited by the self-denial of Jesus.
~ James W. Thompson
The opulence at the head office is often inversely related to the financial substance of the firm. Charlie Munger, paraphrasing Parkinson
~ Janet Lowe
Much corporate anxiety comes from the realization that the company has been doing the wrong thing, but it's too late to change direction because of the "Plan." "We've got to see it through!" Seeing a bad idea through just because at one point it sounded like a good idea is a tragic waste of energy and talent.
~ Jason Fried