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• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism – but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  Gary Hamel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inalienable, Corporations

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  Hans Haacke

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Liberal, Corporations

• What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as ‘commoditization.’ What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

  James Surowiecki

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  Tags in Corporations, Phenomenon

• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies’ owners. It’s been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corporations, Dilemma

• Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you’ll be thin for life.

  James Surowiecki

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  Tags in Corporations, Overnight

• There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

  Ruth J. Simmons

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  Tags in Corporations, Shareholders

• If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

  Ruth J. Simmons

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  Tags in Corporations, Humanistic

• I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

  Ruth J. Simmons

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Corporations

• One in four corporations doesn’t pay any taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corporations, Taxes

• Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.

  Bernie Sanders

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  Tags in Practical, Corporations

• CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

  Bernie Sanders

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corporations, Supposed

• I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

  David Ricardo

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  Tags in Corporations

• I’ve been around the bend in corporations.

  Indra Nooyi

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  Tags in Corporations

• What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we’re rooted somewhere, they’ve got our address, right?

  Susan George

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  Tags in Corporations

• We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.

  George Pataki

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Corporations

• There’s something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That’s how ‘Speed’ is. He’s a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

  Emile Hirsch

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Corporations

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.

  Ralph Nader

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corporations, Republican, Door, Knock, Difference

• I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations.

  Unknown

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Any, Calories, Corporations, Meals, Think, Separation, Being

• I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations.

  Ralph Nader

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  Tags in Corporations, Think, Separation

• Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

  Lester Bangs

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  Tags in Corporations, Theater, Productive, Fail