“It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody” CompanyLaborDoctorsPaidCustomersRevenueTaxpayersAustralianOutrageousSpin Doctors Author:Nick Minchin
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.” PeopleCompanyCareersWorstDadPaidMy DadLots Of MoneyBusinessmanBest Company Author:Topher Grace
“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
“Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.” MenMindFirstsChildrenHas BeensMadeSelfSometimesStoriesBigsEffortPayCompanyKnownSuccessfulWifeEarsSightPaidBoredomConcentrationDedicationBoresTotalityOlivesSelf MadeMartiniBig CompaniesPrice Of Success Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.” MadeEnoughChoicesPayCompanyDyingSittingPaidWingsKillingAddictionFlightSmokeHospitalsTobaccoAirlineSmokersPersonal ChoiceOncology Author:Anna Quindlen
“Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.” MenGivingWellsMeanCharacterTogetherGrowsAttentionCompanyFashionHabitMen And WomenPaidRoughIngredientsCompositionCarelessPolitenessBreedingGood CompanyGood Breeding Author:Lord Chesterfield
“I like the idea of company-paid dividends.” IdeasValuesCompanyPaidInvestingDividends Author:Walter Schloss
“In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience.” IfsWantSidesBrainCompanyPaidCorporateMentalityBrain Dead Author:Mike Royer
“I'm a grafter, I like working, but like for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film company only paid me for the shooting schedule, which was supposed to last six months. But it lasted 11 months and you don't get paid for extra shooting.” LastsFilmCompanyCasesMonthsSixPaidCuriousShootingExtrasButtonsSchedulesSix MonthsBenjamin Button Author:Jason Flemyng
“If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.” IfsNeedsCompanyClassHugePaidManagementMedicineLifestyleAlternativesMainstreamInsurance CompaniesAlternative Medicine Author:Deepak Chopra
“When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.” WholeArtistSufferingCompanyRecordsProducePaidTablesVideoStakesNew Artists Author:Pharoahe Monch
“Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.” IfsMightCertainCompanyPaidInvestigationYou Re Pretty Author:Kris Dunn
“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.” WorldLongGovernmentPoliticalPowerfulCompanyDemocracyMiddleTaughtWillingBalancePaidWestWesternHeavyOilEastOppressionCodeOperationsRegionsFriendlyMost PowerfulTyrantsRegimesMiddle EastDictatorshipTolerateLimitlessCiaAugustCoupsTiltOil CompaniesAjaxPowerful Government Author:Stephen Kinzer
“I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.” MadeGamesDecisionCompanyMillionsPaidShoesBillionsDumbZeroDumb Decisions Author:Warren Buffett
“Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.” IfsThinkingKnowsJobsGuyCompanyLeaderMillionsPaidDollarsCoachesDumbExecutivesScandalJust SayingEnronEnron Scandal Author:Bo Schembechler
“The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.” Has BeensCompanyPaidDividends Author:Peter Cundill
“Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.” LinesCompanyFrontsPaidCustomersBrandsEmployeeInspirational Customer Service Author:Tony Hsieh
“Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities — and I’ll show you a company that’s underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That’s the CEO’s job.” ShowsRunningJobsNamesCommunityCompanyFiveActivityPaidChiefsBoardsExecutivesShow MeCeoPrestigeChief Executives Author:Albert J. Dunlap
“One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.” ReasonGovernmentHappensCareUsedAnswersPayCompanyHigherPoliticianCostPaidPatientMedicalGuaranteesGuarantees ThatInsurance CompaniesMedical Care Author:Thomas Sowell
“Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a settlement fine with the federal government for $5 billion for defrauding investors.” CountryGovernmentPoliticalForcePowerfulCompanyEconomicStreetsWallFinePaidBillionsMost PowerfulInvestorsFederal GovernmentSettlementGoldman Sachs Author:Bernie Sanders
“It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for me to go there. Book reviewers don't pay for the books they review.” WantBookFactsPayCompanyPaidReviewsReviewersEthiopiaBook Review Author:John Gimlette
“If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.” IfsWantPlayCompanyPaidCorporateFestivalsCoachella Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.” EndsWholeCompanyIssuesBattleBenefitsPaidGenderDiscriminationReformPreventionInsurance CompaniesGender Discrimination Author:Barbara Mikulski
“My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.” PersonsSaidRealJobsMotherValuesFatherCompanyTalentColorPeriodsSkillsFemalePaidBlindMalesGenderExecutivesBest PersonReal Knowledge Author:Ivanka Trump
“This is very dangerous for us, as a society, and I think people deserve a politics of integrity that is not bought and paid for by big banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, insurance companies, the things that those two corporate parties both represent and which pull the strings inside the party.” PeopleThinkingTwoWarBigsPartyCompanyDangerousIntegrityDeservePaidCorporateGiantsFuelStringsFossilsFossil FuelInsurance Companies Author:Jill Stein
“The debt settlement company will direct you to stop paying your creditor and instead send the money directly to them each month. The company's goal is to demonstrate to your creditor that you don't have the money to pay up - that's your leverage. After a few months, the company will typically go to the creditor and say, "I'm holding X dollars on behalf of your customer. He doesn't have the money to pay you, so you should take this amount as a settlement or you'll end up with nothing." If the creditor wants to get paid badly enough, it will take the money.” IfsWantShouldEndsEnoughGoalPayCompanyMonthsAmountDirectPaidDollarsDebtCustomersBehalfSettlementCreditorsEach MonthDebt Settlement Author:Jean Chatzky
“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
“Undocumented workers can't report if they're not being paid overtime, or if their health and safety laws are being violated, of if they're not getting the minimum wage. And so a lot of times companies prefer to hire them in order to take advantage of them. We've got to crack down on those employers.” IfsLawOrderCompanyAdvantagePaidSafetyWorkersReportsCracksMinimumEmployersMinimum WageHealth And SafetyUndocumented Workers Author:Barack Obama
“If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the way from its conception to the health improvements realized by actual patients. The company would be paid for health impact, and it would have to arrange the entire pipeline in between - all the steps of invention, of clinical testing, of getting marketing approval in many different countries, of wholesalers and retailers and prescriptions and so on - in a holistically optimal way.” IfsWayDifferentCountryWould BeCompanyStepsProductsPaidImpactPatientMarketingMedicalImprovementInventionFundConceptionApprovalTestingPrescriptionsClinicalsDifferent CountriesPipelineOptimalRetailers Author:Thomas Pogge
“I didn’t know they’d do this to you. (Syd) It’s okay, Syd. Who could have imagined that a man who heads up a company of paid assassins and mercenaries would be psychotic? (Steele)” KnowsMenWould BeCompanyOkayPaidAssassinsPsychoticHeads Up Book:Bad Attitude Source: Bad Attitude
“A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.” DoeJobsCompanyPaidSoccer Author:Arsene Wenger
“Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.” JobsSoundCompanyEnvironmentHugeFairsPaidPressesProducersInvited Author:Klaus Schulze
“This is business: they don't care about your lyrics; The better you sell, the better future for their children. Controversy sells, so they support conflict, Makes more progress, means more profit. An artist gets killed, they say they're 'so sorry,' Meanwhile, they tell you the date of his next project. What a life...death made them more profit: Record companies get paid for your drama.” MeanChildrenMadeCareArtistNextCompanySupportRecordsProgressDramaConflictProjectsPaidSellsSorryProfitHip HopDon't CareRapControversyLife DeathRecord CompaniesBetter Future Author:Cormega