Quotes About Corporations

When large corporations have disproportionate power—not only over what's sold, but also over the rules for deciding what contracts are permissible and enforceable by law—those who are relatively powerless have no choice. The "free market" is not, in this sense, free. It offers no practical alternative.

In 2013, Apple spent $3,370,000 on lobbying; Amazon, $3,456,000; Facebook, $6,430,000; Microsoft, $10,490,000; and Google, $15,800,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The threat to America is not coming from peaceful demonstrators. And it's not coming from a government that's too large. It's coming from unprecedented amounts of money now inundating our democracy, mostly from big corporations and a handful of the super-rich.

China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders. No contest.

China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders.

Fifty years ago, when General Motors was the largest employer in America, the typical GM worker earned $35.00 an hour in today's dollars. By 2014, America's largest employer was Walmart, and the average hourly wage of Walmart workers was $11.22.

In a globalized economy, where corporations are held to the almighty dollar and raising the stock price involves layoffs, overworked staffs, and offshoring, this strategy I've shown you of cutting developer costs is making good code obsolete. As developers, we're going to be asked/told/conned into writing twice the code in half the time if we're not careful.

laws of economics. It creates aggressive competition within its own ranks, but does its best to remove all outside competitors. That's what multi-nationals are all about

My rich dad just played the game smart, and he did it through corporations—the biggest secret of the rich.

Robert urges those who own legitimate assets to find out more about corporations' benefits and protections. Garret Sutton's books are among many that can help.

Garret Sutton sobre este tema ofrecen reflexiones maravillosas acerca de la fuerza de las corporaciones personales.

Garret Sutton's books on corporations provide wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.

This has never happened before—trusted transactions directly between two or more parties, authenticated by mass collaboration and powered by collective self-interests, rather than by large corporations motivated by profit. It

What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?

The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures? And how will they be able to ensure that all employees, wherever they work from, share a united identity and vision?

We are often told that curtailing the freedom of business is coercive and undemocratic. But by what democratic principle should corporations and billionaires decide the fate of current and future generations? When a government releases them from regulation, it allows them to determine whether other people live or die.

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.