Corporation Quotes

Middle-class democracy has proved the best camouflage of the political dominance of big capital.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

President Bush is a corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being.

The existence of an immensely powerful military-industrial complex constitutes a danger to democracy, both internationally and domestically, because it follows its own logic and operates independently of popular participation.

To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

The White House staff [under Richard Nixon] viewed Congress in much the same way that the chairman of the board of a huge corporation regards his regional sales managers.

Boeing is a United States icon.

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

The cigarette companies knew that cigarettes caused cancer and they lied about it.

If you're a politician and all you care about is staying in office, you're worried about a small group of voters in your district who vote in the primary. If you're a corporation, you need to be much more in synch with public opinion, because you're appealing to people across the spectrum. Ironically, a lot of corporations have to be far more democratic than democratically elected officials.

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

A corporation has no soul.

I'm a man without a corporation.

Adam Smith did not foresee powerful labor unions or social welfare or heavy technology. He marveled at the productivity attained by division of labor in the making of pins. He knew nothing about single electric-current circuit breakers big as a house. Although accumulation of capital from profit and its reinvestment in productive equipment were cornerstones of his philosophy, the scale of investment required for the subsequent technological advances was beyond his ken. Amusingly, he saw no future for the corporation, because, in his opinion, such an artificial body could not marshal the selfish, driving search for profit so fundamental to his system.

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

I'm a man without a corporation.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.

New Yorkers pay a price of untold millions to the great private monopolies every year an excessive price because these monopolies use their power to defeat effective regulation.-

People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.

Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.