“Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.” CompanyPagesAccountsFortuneActiveCorporateFacebook Page Author:Clara Shih
“We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.” HandsAgeAsksSecretCompanyDivineCrossesAccountsRaisesEmbraceLipsRefuseCupsFaithfulRemembrancePledgeGreat Company Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons
“Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.” WorldMeanChildrenCountryDarkCompanyOppositesAccountsWorkersInternationalCornersPursuitForestsLabourGlobalizationFree MarketPitsCompetitivenessEmployingCorners Of The WorldInternationalismComplete Opposites Author:Anita Roddick
“BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company. In response, Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that's ruining the ocean.” WantCompanyOceanAccountsResponseOilFakeLeaksOil CompaniesOil Spill Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 if all these companies hadn't come in flooding and making campaign contributions and ask for people's support. That drove the debate. Every year was the allure of corporate dollars flooding into members' bank accounts.” PeopleIfsWayYearsAsksNationsCompanySupportHellMembersAccountsDollarsChinaCampaignsDebateCorporateContributionDisgustingTradingBank AccountsFloodingAllureLobbyingCampaign Contributions Author:Mark Shields
“I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.” IfsKnowsLossCompanyAccountsCreditCardsOnlineBankingCredit CardHacksBank Accounts Author:Kevin Mitnick
“It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.” NeedsYearsKindWholeStoriesUsedOrderStuffCompanyMillionsAudienceInformationNeededAccountsImpactBoringBunchUsed To BeConsumersSteamProcessingInformation Processing Author:Gabe Newell
“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.” LinesCompanyPlanetsProductsAccountsCorporateGiantsMicrosoftMagnetColossus Author:David Shenk
“The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients. So there are these certain basic things that aren't going to change. Companies are going to have needs for equity, debt, advice, FX, and derivatives. Individuals are going to have needs for auto loans, mortgages, something that looks like a deposit account, and the ability to send money to people. Those things aren't going to change.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksCertainIndividualAbilityCompanyAdviceAccountsDebtBest WayClientsEquityLoanMortgageStandpointDepositsDerivativesBasic Things Author:Jamie Dimon
“Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of U.S. economic output. And the reason why is because these companies can get very big, very quickly.” ReasonBigsJobsCompanyEconomyEconomicAccountsReason WhyVentureOutputVenture Capital Author:Juan Enriquez
“I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it into an offshore account. And on the very day that he was increasing the attacks on the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, the export sector, he was signing documents to conceal his own money offshore. So the exposé of the Panama money laundering has hit some of the dictators that America is protecting and promoting.” AmericaPresidentCompanyPaperAccountsMovedRegionsChocolateDictatorDocumentsPapersEasternPromotingUkraineSigningUkrainianPanamaOffshoreMoney Laundering Author:Michael Hudson
“Once the settlement is completed, the credit card company will report it to the credit bureaus, which will then make a notation on your credit report that that account was paid by settlement. That's going to signal to future lenders that you left the last guy hanging. That's why, as with bankruptcy, debt settlement is an extreme option, one you shouldn't take lightly. It's not just an easy, cheap way to eliminate debt.” WayLastsGuyLeftEasyCompanyAccountsPaidExtremesCreditDebtCardsReportsSignalsCredit CardSettlementBankruptcyLendersDebt Settlement Author:Jean Chatzky
“[John Adams] letters courting Abigail Smith are especially priceless. In one of 1764 he addresses her as "Miss Adorable" and says that "By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses, and as many Hours of your Company after 9 O'Clock as he shall please to Demand and charge them to my Account."” GivingLastsNightOrderHoursCompanyMissingPleaseDemandKissingLettersAccountsClockAddressesLast NightPricelessAdorableTokensAbigail Author:Gordon S. Wood
“That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts with a nominal foreign address's owner). They pretend to make their global income in Ireland. They have an office, which could be simply a postal drop box in Ireland, and claim to make all their money there, not in America.” BigsAmericaCompanyTechnologyInformationOfficeAccountsClaimsDollarsBoxesIncomeApplesAddressesOwnersIrelandMicrosoftInformation Technology Author:Michael Hudson
“Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.” ThinkingShouldLongUseGoalTermNaturalCompanyHeardInfluenceDevelopmentAccountsIncludingLong TermAccountingIntegratingSustainable DevelopmentAccountants Author:Kofi Annan
“Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.” PeopleIfsMadeInterestHurtChancePayCompanyBalanceLimitsToughAccountsRateCreditCardsScoreClosingPaymentCredit CardInterest RateTimelyGood Chance Author:Suze Orman
“The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.” CompanyEffectsAccountsImpactMoodInsidiousBank Accounts Author:James Surowiecki
“I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.” LongScienceCompanyCreativeIndustryEconomicsAccountsNobleEngineeringProsperousAestheticsPrototype Author:Edwin Land
“I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national lab, but by the character of our decisions. The Department of Energy serves the country as a Department of Science, a Department of Innovation, and a Department of Nuclear Security.” ShouldBelieveCountryStatesCharacterScienceEnergyI BelieveDecisionCompanySecurityParticularDirectAccountsInnovationUniversityNuclearDepartmentJudgedLabs Author:Steven Chu
“The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago by the exact sciences, is now once more dug up by pseudo scientists from the lumber room of human fallacies, and like a trollop, newly attired in elegant dress and make-up, is smuggled into respectable company, to which she does not belong.” YearsHumansDoePhilosophyScienceNatureNaturalRoomsCompanyYears AgoEmptyScientistAccountsDressesBrilliantWeedReplacedElegantRespectableFallacyPseudoExact SciencesLumber Author:Hermann Kolbe