“Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending-are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels.” AgeActionThreeLevelsCuttingPolicySafeTaxesPaidSpendingIncomeCorporateSpheresEmissionsPillarsPrivatizationDeregulation Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.” IfsSeemsCommonAttitudeOpinionClaimsPaidManagementSellsPropertyFinanceCorporatePhrasesOwnersInvestorsSuperintendents Author:Benjamin Graham
“I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.” ThinkingWellsLeftTeacherOughtVotePaidGreedCorporateCorporate Greed Author:Eleanor Catton
“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
“Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensIdeasHardWholeFormAttentionRecordsTheoryModelsEconomicsPaidSevenInvestingTeethFinanceCorporateFairyAssetsAcademicEfficientPercentagesDescendantsObscenityPricingVolatilityTooth FairyEfficient Markets Author:Charlie Munger
“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
“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
“Now, in an analysis of campaign finance filings by Politico we learned the [Donald] Trump campaign has paid Trump businesses more than $8 million so far in this race, that includes $1.3 million in rent for campaign offices, half a million for food and facilities for events, over $300,000 for corporate staffers, and nearly $6 million for the use of Trump`s private plane.” UseRaceHalfMillionsEventsTrumpOfficePaidCampaignsFinanceCorporatePlanesAnalysisFacilityFilingCampaign Finance Author:Chris Hayes
“Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.” PeopleNeedsAmericaPartyRepublicanHighestClaimsPaidDemocraticCorporateRepublican PartyCorporate America Author:Roseanne Barr
“All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.” AmericaPoliticalInterestPartyShareStreetsWallRepublicanPaidDemocratCorporateWealthyRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesCorporate America Author:Michael Moore
“The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.” PeopleIfsInspirationalInspirationMotivationalCallingMusicianPaidCorporateChefDoing What You LoveLoving What You Do Book:Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Source: Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones