Community Quote by Noam Chomsky

Why not stakeholder action? There's no economic principal that says that management should be responsive to shareholders, in fact you can read in texts…

— Noam Chomsky

Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

— Henry Mintzberg

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

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are…

— Tony Gilroy

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

— Peter Drucker

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

— Henry Mintzberg

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.

— James Mattis

I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

— Aaron Swartz

A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people…

— William Jennings Bryan

In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton…

— Srikumar Rao