Corporations sayings

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◆ Our consumer culture is fed by an increasingly sophisticated advertising industry that likes you, friends you, follows you, adds a plus to your life and then turns up the volume on your inadequacies. It feels like we are exchanging real relationships with real people for fake relationships with corporations. Corporations that build real relationships between people who discover a common connection through their product will thrive in a healthy way.

- Leon Lazarus99

◆ Fascism is actually the work of the synergistic effort of big government and big corporations working together to stifle the people. And that's what we have in America today.

- Aaron Russo99

◆ Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.

- Ben Manski99

◆ It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

- Gloria Steinem99

◆ We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

- John Snow99

◆ It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.

- Gordon Mackenzie99

◆ 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 Shenk99

◆ You cannot afford to hire an attorney at $200 to $300 an hour to fight over your $12,000 car and have to pay those bills. People need to become aware that they have some rights, even when going up against these giant companies that try to intimidate.

- Vince Megna99

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

- Tom Scholz99

◆ Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

- Greg Walden99

◆ Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

- Gore Vidal99

◆ We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.

- Susan Molinari99

◆ There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

- Pete Du Pont99

◆ Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

- Charles W Pickering99