“I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'” YearsFirstsWantedAmericaHousePartyCompanyMarriedDaughterJewFirmPatrioticFoundersMillionaireClerksAmerican PatrioticHouse Of CommonsGrand Daughter Author:Denis Fahey
“He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!” MenNeedsJobsAmericaNationsPresidentCompanyCareersSuccessfulCuttingBuildingPrideTaxesSavedBudgetsBalancedGovernorsOlympicsBusinessmanRomneyFamily ManSuccessful CompanyBudget Cuts Author:Reince Priebus
“Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.” AmericaValuesCompanyProceduresFamily ValuesFertilityInsurance Companies Author:Cindy Margolis
“If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers. That's not censorship. That's common sense.” IfsShouldKidsAmericaTurnsCommonCompanyProductsCommon SenseLabelsConsumersContradictionCensorshipMisleadRating Author:Joe Lieberman
“I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.” DifferentAmericaFilmSongCompanyWatchesChangedPhonesBellsTwistsColumbusGraham Bell Author:Chubby Checker
“It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.” IfsBelieveHas BeensPainAmericaFacesHouseI BelieveCan DoWhiteCompanyBreakTroubleCarFixedExpertsWhite HouseBreaking DownRopeBureaucratsChrysler Author:Lee Iacocca
“When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.” ThinkingWorldWantStillsAmericaEnergyCompanyLandPromiseInnovationFolksImmigrationAround The WorldGoogle Author:Barack Obama
“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.” WayYearsSaidRealAmericaUsedCompanyHappeningsMetaphorReal LifeUsed To Be Author:Immortal Technique
“Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.” ThinkingWorldShouldProblemHandsAmericaCompanyLeaderProductsOffersAimProfitManagersMaking MoneyCorporateExecutivesEfficientWorld LeaderProvidersCredo Author:W. Edwards Deming
“The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.” FirstsPlayAmericaCompanyFiveTwentiesLondonAdaptedTwenty FiveDublin Book:Seven short plays Source: Seven short plays
“The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America to gain full use of the talents and abilities of all her people. They would develop new innovations to improve our lives, or help build the next great American company.” PeopleThinkingMeanHelpingUseAmericaNextAbilityCompanyPovertyMillionsOur LivesTalentDespairGainsResourcesInnovationTrappedGreat AmericanTalents And Abilities Author:Marco Rubio
“America's companies are built to destroy creativity.” AmericaCompanyCreativityBuilt Author:Millard Drexler
“America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, wed understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.” IfsProblemAmericaHateFallNationsCompanySituationDividedFalling ApartFresh Start Author:Michael Arrington
“All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.” PeopleThinkingStillsAmericaCompanyEqualAll ThingsChinaGermanyHometownBeing Equal Author:Bill Ford
“The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.” GivingBodyAmericaCompanyTaxesFunctionFoundationAwfulShopsShelter Author:Anita Roddick
“I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.” AmericaCoursesCompanyShareBottomFolksAfrican AmericanDoomedMy ThoughtsGloomy Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.” MayPersonsCountryBigsAmericaArtistActorsChallengesCompanyMajorsTownsActressesGrantsTouring Author:Louise Slaughter
“Good presidents, people like George Bush, they SEND people to war. They don't bring them a rescue. This is America. We rescue insurance companies and banks.” PeopleWarAmericaPresidentCompanyRescueInsurance Companies Author:Bill Maher
“Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.” AmericaCompanySupportTruth IsExpectationsPhonesApplesVirginsExceedExemplaryTruth Be Told Author:Gary Hamel
“This is a world that's big enough for everyone. I like that message in that comes out of John Lasseter, and it comes out Pixar, it comes out of the Apple, Google, the Ben and Jerry's thing. These are American companies that send that message around that is good, that is healthy. And everyone goes, "That's the America I always believed in before Watergate."” WorldEnoughBigsAmericaCompanyHealthyMessagesApplesGoogleAlways BelieveJerryWatergatePixar Author:Eddie Izzard
“It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.” WorldAmericaCompanySellingGermanyBritainJapanDestroyingConcessionsTimberRainforest Author:Jane Goodall
“I remember exiting the birth canal and suddenly I was in a film. But you are never really in charge of that. The movie came out about five or six months ago in America. It was Miramax in the States and Disney here [fakes falling asleep]. What happened. I love working for Disney, not Walt specifically because he couldn't be more dead, but the company is fantastic.” StatesAmericaRememberFilmFallCompanyFiveHappenedMonthsBirthSixFantasticFakeSix MonthsWaltCanalsFalling Asleep Author:Ryan Reynolds
“I'm not sure how it is in America, but for what I can say about Germany, most people give their information willingly to anyone who asks for it such as companies like Google. We just don't question it anymore.” PeopleGivingI CanAmericaAsksCompanyInformationNot SureGermanyGoogle Author:Christian Schwochow
“A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.” PeopleFactsUseProblemGovernmentRunningAbleAmericaPoliticalProcessPowerfulNumbersCompanyEconomicDangerousDifficultyCompetitionChineseWealthyGlobalizationFractionsSmall NumbersEconomic Problems Author:Charles Ferguson
“We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.” ThinkingAmericaFallMistakeCompanyTruth IsEuropeTradeAsiaTaiwan Author:Margaret Thatcher
“In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.” AmericaCompanyHigherWagesManufacturing Author:Adam McKay
“America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.” FirstsWellsProblemAmericaCompanyCenturyTwentiesEnteringNineteenth CenturyBusiness Problems Author:Michael Martin Hammer
“Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.” HomeAmericaScienceEasyAnimalCompanyPracticalsForestsRegionsNeverthelessMonopolyFurWild AnimalEvergreensWoods And Forests Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American
“Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the pharmaceutical companies. He's just looking for something to relieve the redness in the center of the country.” CountryCareAmericaFilmNextCompanyIndustryHealth CareDocumentariesPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical CompaniesDocumentary Films Author:Argus Hamilton