“The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.” PeopleIfsYearsChildrenLittlesSaidCountryStatesHomeGovernmentForceUnitedCommonPayCompanyUnited StatesMastersPoliticianSlaveDebtStatisticsLoanMonopolySharks Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease
“In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.” PeopleIfsMayStatesTodayMovingUnitedCompanyUnited StatesTomorrowColleaguesBusinessmanCompetitors Author:Akio Morita
“Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.” TryingStatesRememberUnitedCompanyUnited StatesResponseWesternBritishOilIranContinuationOil CompaniesAppeasement Author:Leonard Peikoff
“It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.” StatesSeemsUnitedMoneyCompanyUnited StatesPositionOilOil CompaniesMasochistic Author:John J. McCloy
“The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.” LongStatesUnitedCompanyUnited StatesFinancialNeglectBorrowedBorrowed Money Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.” StatesSocialUnitedCompanyUnited StatesNotionEmployeeContractsPaychecksSocial Contract Author:Alex Berenson
“I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.” MayStatesGrowthUnitedCompanyUnited StatesPercentEnginesMultinationalsDiversification Author:Laurence D. Fink