Business Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Individual Individual responsibility Ingenious Obtaining Profit Responsibility
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit. — James Cook Copy Share Image
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
“The reason this works is that under normal circumstances, employers and employees alike conspire to maintain the fiction that a corporation is a set… — Venkatesh G. Rao Copy Share Image
The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“Now combine an application like that—a widely distributed entity that never dies—with tens of millions of dollars and the ability to purchase goods and… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
“[A corporation is] a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image