“When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated.” MenStatesWisdomPoliticsCompanyStepsEconomyConditionsSecurityCitizensBenefitsMassSlaveryPropertySlaveLiberalismWagesSufficiencyCompulsoryEmployingDoctoring Author:Hilaire Belloc
“For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.” EasyBusinessCompanyMassShotsUltimateHotScoreCracksCeoUnemploymentAccountingFiringQuick FixesHot Shots Book:Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America Source: Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
“Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now they're left with this mass of assets to sell. We're not talking about selling here, we're talking about buying intelligently. They were selling what they got handed to them by a bunch of savings and loan operators that had in many cases had done some very dumb thing. But their job was to liquidate it. And they liquidated.” DoneGovernmentJobsLeftCompanyTalkingCasesMassPaidSellsBunchSellingSavingBrokeDumbBuyingResolutionAssetsLoanSavingsNot TalkingOperatorsPaid OffDumb Things Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.” ActionFormCompanyDutyMassShotsBasesThreatMeetingsTerrorismBreadCardsSpotsGoodsStationsSovietFactoriesResortsDeprivedSpeculatorsBandits Author:Vladimir Lenin
“If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.” IfsNeedsCompanyMassSolutionsVideoSiteBandwidth Author:Jack London
“There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.” PeopleIfsWayWholeCompanySuccessfulMassCriticalCustomersFocusedMultipleCompetitorsCritical Mass Author:Jeff Bezos