“However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.” WorldMayProblemGovernmentFoundPowerfulRichDoubtPolicyProductsDemandConcernRootsMethodGreedDestroyedCorporationsNo DoubtDestructiveConsumerismPrivate LifeOverconsumption Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
“The ideal body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.” FeelsLooksMadeBodyProductsIdealsShameCorporationsBuyingAdvertisers Author:Caitlin Stasey
“There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.” UsedDealsProduceProductsDrivenUsed To BeCorporationsFundDerivativesHedge Fund Author:Cornel West
“Making the logo twice the size is often a good thing to do, because most advertisements are deficient in brand identification. Showing the clients' faces is also a better stratagem than it may sound, because the public is more interested in personalities than in corporations. Some clients can be projected as human symbols of their own products.” HumansMayFacesSoundProductsPersonalityGood ThingsSizeSymbolsBrandsCorporationsThings To DoClientsIdentificationAdvertisementsLogosStratagem Book:Confessions of an advertising man Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.” IfsMenYearsLawIndividualCommonProductsBenefitsStandardsYears AgoRaisedProfitIncomeCorporationsEnterpriseMinoritiesQuantityConsumptionTaxationInheritanceStandards Of LivingCommon ManNew ProductsAmerican Law Author:Ludwig von Mises
“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.” BelieveGovernmentChallengesEnvironmentStreetsConditionsSecurityProductsWallClaimsNotesWorkersProfitConsumersCorporationsInvestorsToxicRegulationDiminishTaxpayersUnhealthyEmissionsLendingUnsafeHealthy FoodPredatoryGovernment RegulationBailoutsWorking ConditionsUnhealthy Food Author:Robert Reich
“Corporations can't have it both ways. They can't tell Americans how much they want us to buy their products, but then run abroad to avoid taxes or hire cheap labor. American corporations should pay their fair share of taxes and create decent-paying jobs here - not in China.” WayWantShouldRunningJobsPayShareProductsTaxesFairsLaborChinaCorporationsDecentWant UFair ShareCheap Labor Author:Bernie Sanders
“The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means not owned by individuals, corporations, governments, or the community as common property. It means that ideas are available to be used by anyone who wants to.” WantShouldMeanIdeasGovernmentUsedIndividualLanguageCommunityCommonCasesProductsIntellectualPropertyEverydayAvailableAlternativesCorporationsStraightforwardIntellectual Property Author:Brian Martin
“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.” PeopleHas BeensUsedPurposeProcessSidesImaginationPowerfulNumbersTakenModernEffectsIdentityProductsIndustryImpactProfoundEntertainmentSellingAdvertisingConsumersCorporationsSoleEroticModern SocietyEntertainment IndustrySide EffectsCommercialization Author:Robert Lawlor
“If you were a corporation needing financial services, and I can give you something better, faster, and cheaper across 12 products as opposed to eight, that's business. I'm doing it because I'm serving you; I'm not doing it because I want to be universal.” IfsWantGivingI CanProductsUniversalFinancialEightFasterCorporationsServingSomething BetterCheaperFinancial Services Author:Jamie Dimon
“When I came to the U.S., Kraft sponsored my green card, so I was at Kraft foods and I owed them, I felt. But then as my life purified more and more, I felt that that corporation was not doing the right things for the world. That led me to a company that makes organic baby products. It is very pure in its actions and how it deals with others.” WorldActionFeltDealsCompanyProductsBabyPureGreenCardsCorporationsRight ThingDoing The Right ThingGreen Card Author:Karan Bajaj
“There are new ways of producing food, film, clothing, and research that steer clear of using animals. Some of those products are functionally equivalent or even superior to what we're used to. Now corporations, legislatures, and other institutions are responding, and supporting these shifts, so we're seeing seismic changes throughout society.” WayFilmUsedAnimalClearSeeingProductsResearchInstitutionsSuperiorsCorporationsClothingsNew WaysLegislatureRespondingSteers Author:Wayne Pacelle
“They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentRunningPastLawPrinciplesRightsCenturyProductsDevelopmentNegativeCorporationsDifferent KindsOver The PastAmerican LawPersonal Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.” WayWellsKindProcessCompanyTechnologyRightsProductsElementsIntellectualPropertyProtectionCorporationsAgreementCrucialInvestorsMixturesIntellectual PropertyPharmaceuticalNaftaPharmaceutical CompaniesTransnational Corporations Author:Noam Chomsky
“Newt Gingrich said that this executive producer is weird and it raises - does raise questions about possible conflicts. The FCC regulates NBC corporations can try to curry favor with the president by placing their products on the show [Celebrity Apprentice].” TryingDoeSaidShowsPresidentProductsConflictRaisesFavorsProducersCorporationsExecutivesApprenticeNbcNewtsCurryFccRaises Questions Author:George Stephanopoulos
“Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended.” UsedEvilGoneMagicTalentProductsWasteProjectsBillionsUsed To BeHatedCorporationsPun Author:Simon Sinek
“In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual and no corporation should be allowed to amass that kind of unlimited wealth, including bestselling writers like myself, who are showered with royalties.” PeopleShouldKindIndividualWealthProductsIndiaIncludingCorporationsAssetsUnlimitedGrossRoyaltyGross Domestic Product Author:Arundhati Roy
“The most common conception of Capitalism is that it is an economic system consisting of privately owned businesses and large corporations that are run for profit. The profit comes from running the business efficiently and keeping the products and services up to date and competitively priced.” RunningCommonEconomicProductsCapitalismProfitCorporationsConceptionEconomic SystemsUp To Date Author:Philip Kotler