“The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.” WorldWellsPoliticalOrderIndividualDecisionDealsEconomicDirectorsCourtPropertySupremeCorporateCorporationsOwnersTerritoryAmendmentsProtectedSupreme CourtCompetingArenaSupremacyLouisianaEconomic PowerNew DealCorporate WorldEconomic OrderCourt DecisionFourteenth Amendment Author:C. Wright Mills
“Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.” StillsInterestKnownDutyDirectorsAuthorityManagersCorporationsPrincipalShareholdersDodge Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
“Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.” RealHardBigsDecisionOur LivesDirectorsExcitedCorporationsVotingSeals Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?” GivingLittlesCountryRunningAmericaFineDirectorsCorporateCorporationsDamnBoardsCeoGreat PowerBoard Of DirectorsDisgruntled Author:Norman Mailer
“I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.” ShouldBelieveLawI BelieveBreakDirectorsResponsibleCorporationsOfficers Book:The New Nationalism Source: The New Nationalism
“All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or at least a great majority of them - live in fear because we're all insecure, we all want that next job, we all want to be loved, and we don't want to piss off some studio chief who won't hire us for the next movie.” WantJobsNextActorsLeftDirectorsMajorityStudiosChiefsCorporationsInsecureMultinationalsMultinational Corporations Author:Paul Haggis