Corporations Quote by Peter S. Grosscup

It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal,…

— Edward Coke

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

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

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

— Anatoly Chubais

A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period.

— Wilbur Ross

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

— Henry Mintzberg

“Institutionalization is not, however, an irreversible process, despite the fact that institutions, once formed, have a tendency to persist.49 For a variety of historical…

— Peter L. Berger

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

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

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

— John Marshall

It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt