Big Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

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

There was a time when a company could not sell its shares to the public unless its revenues were growing and it was turning…

— Daniel Lyons

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for…

— Anonymous

“the government alleged that the company was little more than a pyramid scheme built upon misleading promises of riches to prospective distributors, many of…

— Jane Mayer

Large corporate entities are more untrusted than trusted. And they've earned that by the way they've done things.

— Ronald M. Shaich

The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand…

— Michael Lewis

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors…

— Eliot Spitzer

“Companies made money and were beholden to stockholders; it was understandable if they tried to “cover their ass,” people told me. But the government…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than…

— Don Nickles

And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested.

— Brian Henson

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize…

— Alberto Gonzales

If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same…

— Russell Simmons