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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. -- Ambrose Bierce
I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation. -- Trini Lopez
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930 -- Leo Baekeland
My agility is the CEO of the United Global Agility Corporation -- Steve Nash
Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants. -- Libba Bray
The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings. -- Jasper Fforde
Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation. -- Laurence Overmire
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. -- Atom Egoyan
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation. -- Kage Baker
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry. -- Ann Macbeth
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A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance. -- Michael LeBoeuf
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read. -- Walter Dean Myers
For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values. -- Rupert Murdoch
A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds. -- Paul Clitheroe
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people. -- Don Tapscott
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people." -- Don Tapscott
Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000. -- Jay Inslee
As you may know, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, or MCC, awards grants only to countries which rule justly, promote economic freedom, and invest in their people. -- Benigno Aquino III
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box. -- Bob Brown
My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs. -- Brigid Berlin
Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather. -- Stuart Symington
Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather." -- Stuart Symington
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
After I finished my master's degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office. -- Gwynne Shotwell
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies. -- Rick Bayan
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada. -- John Strachan
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite. -- Dale Dauten
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations. -- Earl Blumenauer
Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything. -- Paul W. S. Anderson
I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
The growth of markets in the region also provides opportunities for home-grown entities - whether established brand names like DBS, Singtel and Keppel Corporation, or SMEs - to establish and grow their presence in the region. -- Tony Tan
Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was. -- Jeffrey Skilling
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I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation. -- Amar Bose
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation -- Charles Petzold
many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation. -- Paul A. Baran
If it's time to party, it's time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I'm chilling at home though, I'm listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical. -- Alexis Knapp
I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to, -- Matthew Freud
The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759(still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged). -- Andrew Tobias
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. -- Allen Newell
News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time. -- Rupert Murdoch
If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis. -- Bill Gates
Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan... -- Stephen Baxter
The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The estimated dividend income received by the Thomson family in 1995 from its 72% ownership share of the Thomson Corporation and its 22% ownership share of the Hudson's Bay Company was $310 million. -- Jim Stanford
In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO. -- Lee Iacocca
When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same. -- will.i.am
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. -- Ed McMahon
Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept. -- Jose Andres Puerta
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. -- Mary Harris Jones
What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say. -- Timothy Noah
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful. -- Henri Nouwen
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. -- Larry Ellison
The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation. -- Harvey Mackay
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign. -- Bernie Sanders
You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. -- Rupert Murdoch
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. -- C. Wright Mills
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. -- Maurice Strong
Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation. -- Tibor Kalman
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want. -- Keith Olbermann
I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer. -- Alan Siegel
How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed. -- Naveen Jain
Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well. -- Alan Cranston
Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person. -- Dean Smith
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine. -- Noam Chomsky
John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company. -- Alex Berenson
The public may admire a corporation for its impressive size. Who in the United States doesn't? But when a business, however gigantic, gets smug enough to believe that it is sufficient only to match competition on trivial points instead of leading competition in valid matters, that business is becoming vulnerable to public disfavor. -- Raymond Loewy
Not every corporation's idyllic. -- Rush Limbaugh
Not every corporation's idyllic. -- Rush Limbaugh
A corporation has no soul. -- Edward Coke
The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. -- Jerry Brown
I'm a man without a corporation. -- Robert Duvall
Women will change the corporation more than we expect. -- Anita Borg
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. -- Edward Abbey
It is in the long run that the corporation lives. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation. -- John Currin
Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies -- Jean Ziegler
The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state -- Benito Mussolini
To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level. -- DJ Shadow
The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind. -- Patrick Dixon
The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit. -- Jim Hightower
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation. -- Ulysses S. Grant
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. -- Gloria Swanson
Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. -- Greg Kinnear
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. -- David Byrne
You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to. -- Daymond John
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead. -- Tom Peters
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. -- John Marshall
The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead. -- Nido R Qubein
You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation. -- Michael Pollan
Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. -- Howard Scott
As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness. -- Leo Hindery
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation. -- Howard Scott
Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. -- Joni Mitchell
A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability. -- Doug Berry
The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit. -- Joel Bakan
I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation. -- Alfred P. Sloan
The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation. -- Robert H. Jackson
The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear. -- Barry Libert
The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars. -- William O. Douglas
A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience. -- Evan Esar
The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic. -- James Surowiecki
My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence. -- Noam Chomsky
the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens -- Fairclough Norman
Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. -- Nick Harkaway
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. -- Leon Botstein
What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation. -- Eric Hoffer
No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you. -- George Matthew Adams
It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court. -- Cecile Richards
Sometimes running a corporation, dealing with powerful companies and trying to juggle so many projects takes its toll. -- Wynonna Judd
Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt. -- Jay Leno
Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money." -- Iris Dement

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