Corporations Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “It is in the long run that the corporation lives.” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corporations Inspirational Long Long run Long runs Running
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business. — Alex Chiu Copy Share Image
The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and… — Jerry Brown 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
Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
For business to survive over a long period, it needs to be contributing to society and people's well-being. Otherwise, who's going to want it?… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying… — Marc Ostrofsky Copy Share Image
I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely intertwined that they are virtually indistinguishable. Ever the Governing Executives of OneiriCon, many of whom are defectors from the Nightmare Network, throw themselves into the depths of the new order and lose all sense of identity in the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
