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  • We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees -- Harry Belafonte
  • I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America. -- Irene Rosenfeld
  • The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters. -- Henry Kravis
  • I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners. -- Henry Kravis
  • I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us. -- Bennie Thompson
  • We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy. -- Carl Icahn
  • The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America. -- Robert Mueller
  • 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. -- Tom Scholz
  • The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic. -- Hollis Stacy
  • Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought. -- Roseanne Barr
  • Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines. -- Seymour Papert
  • Like the stocks of both Berkshire and Wesco to trade within hailing distance of what we think of as intrinsic value. When it runs up, we try to talk it down. That's not at all common in Corporate America, but that's the way we act. -- Charlie Munger
  • During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street and Corporate America. The United States has become ungovernable, unfixable, and, therefore, unsustainable economically, politically, militarily, and environmentally. It has evolved into the wealthiest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all times. -- Thomas Naylor
  • With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution. -- Steve Jobs
  • The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America. -- George W. Bush
  • Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine and starring in her own regularly scheduled Martha Stewart television show. Martha saw herself as Betty Crocker, Julia Child, Miss Manners, Emily Post, and Rupert Murdoch all rolled into one juicy pie. -- Jerry Oppenheimer
  • I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There's nothing to say you don't make a profit by doing good. -- Teresa Heinz
  • Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret. -- Paul Gillin
  • Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free. -- James Altucher
  • The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America. -- Russ Feingold
  • The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). -- Faith Popcorn
  • Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity. -- Lou Dobbs
  • When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny. -- Emo Philips
  • The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is and complains about our wasteful government. -- Michael Parenti
  • Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job. -- Dule Hill
  • Drs. Pinkett and Robinson choose to BE the message that they bring! They don't just enumerate the problems but offer solid solutions for navigating pathways to business ownership, and the halls and boardrooms of previously 'all white' corporate America. Black Faces in White Places is a necessary tool for anyone trying to make their own magic happen. -- Malik Yoba
  • I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done." -- Carly Fiorina
  • I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired. -- Bill Rancic
  • Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. -- Michael Moore
  • Caterham realises corporate America and the American consumer market... is the largest consumer market in the world and it is something that needs to be part of Formula One. -- Alexander Rossi
  • What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners. -- Henry Kravis
  • All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too. -- Michael Moore
  • The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live. -- Boomer Esiason
  • A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions. -- Nolan Bushnell
  • Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business. -- Al Smith
  • So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean. -- Frank Luntz
  • I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world. -- John Sculley
  • I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear. -- Chip Conley
  • With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information. -- Tina Brown
  • It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with. -- Michael Eric Dyson
  • America is incredibly professional and corporate. -- Noel Gallagher
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  • Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing. -- Bill Johnson
  • Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under... -- Deirdre Imus
  • America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level. -- Mark Steyn
  • Donald Trump was not a businessman to be admired, but an example of what's wrong with discriminatory corporate America. -- Jennifer Pozner
  • Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media. -- Louis Farrakhan
  • corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table. -- Arianna Huffington
  • There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail. -- Joe Jamail
  • When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included. -- Randall L. Stephenson
  • I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people. -- Bernie Sanders
  • Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout? -- Bernie Sanders
  • This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it. -- Matt Taibbi
  • In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper! -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper! -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy. -- Walter Reuther
  • I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes. -- Bernie Sanders
  • If Mr. Trump wants to work with us to make sure that trade works for the American worker, not just CEOs of corporate America, you have got a partner, partner. -- Bernie Sanders
  • I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here. -- Hillary Clinton
  • When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. -- Gore Vidal
  • I am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it's a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate America. -- Bernie Sanders
  • By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence. -- Eric Alterman
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