"Corporations aren’t people. People are people."
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"I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training."
"I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife."
"Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state."
"The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end."
"The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people.""
"Once you begin to talk about wealth inequality, especially as it relates to corporations and big banks, or engage in an indictment of U.S. foreign policy, you are really getting at the center of a society that is very fearful of that kind of critique."
"There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things."
"I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock."
"The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet."
"When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same."
"It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation."
"The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives"
"Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
"We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues."
"Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package."
"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."
"The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency."
"A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons."
"If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees."