Gene Green Quotes

Ask the widows and orphans of the thousands of men killed annually through the avarice of railroad corporations refusing to avail themselves of modern appliances in coupling and other improvements on their railroads. Inquire from the thousands of women and children whose husbands or fathers were suffocated or crushed in the mines through the rapacious greed of stockholders clamoring for more dividends.

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

I sometimes wonder how some people can live with themselves in some of the big companies today. So many far-reaching decisions are based on how they will affect the next shareholders' meeting.

Now, I will say, most American companies - most are run by honorable patriotic people who care about their employees and communities. But there are still too many powerful interests fighting to protect their own profits and privileges at the expense of everyone else.

Since when do corporations not have responsibility to the community? Since when to the not have responsibility to their employees?

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

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 history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'

If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.

A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

To companies we have this message: You should keep the promises that you make to your employees.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

Yes, it’s free enterprise. But I don’t think that most constituents understand that their health care is being weakened so a few people can make a lot of money.

Excessive pandering to stockholders is as bad as any other form of pandering

I’ll stop demonizing business when business stops putting their profits before the country and starts putting their workers before their greed.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.