Corporate America Quotes:

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

- Faith Popcorn

source: Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.29, BookBaby

topic: Fun, Home, America, Too Much Power, Corporate America

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

- Bennie Thompson

topic: Confidence, Believe, America, Consumer Confidence, Corporate America

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

- Tom Scholz

topic: Animal, Thinking, America, Corporate America

We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

- Carl Icahn

topic: Real, Roots, America, Corporate America

The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.

- Boomer Esiason

topic: Football, Impact, Usa, Corporate America

We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

- Harry Belafonte

topic: America, Knees, Globalization, Corporate America

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

- Henry Kravis

topic: America, Today, Opinion, Corporate America

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

- Robert Mueller

topic: Confidence, America, People, Enron, Corporate America

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

- Henry Kravis

topic: America, Assets, Owners, Corporate America

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Blow, Technology, America, Corporate America

There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn’t work in corporate America. It’s not an excuse, but it does help explain

- Maurice Clarett

topic: Growing Up, Attitude, Character, Character Development, Corporate America

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

- Aubrey O'Day

topic: Fighting, America, Corporate, Corporate America

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.goodreads.com

topic: Art, Wall, America, Original Art, Corporate America

There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

- Ken Auletta

source: "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

topic: School, Government, Engineering, Ivy League, Ivy League Schools

I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.

- Eva Longoria

source: "Eva Longoria on Business, Beauty, and Mastering Her Signature Smoky Eye". Interview with Patricia Reynoso, www.glamour.com. March 17, 2015.

topic: Mean, Helping Others, America, Corporate America, New Business

The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most Americans that work in corporate America should be able to relate to this show.

- Larenz Tate

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Lying, Dirty, America, Dirty Business, Corporate America

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.

- Emo Philips

source: Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 18, 2000.

topic: Kids, White, America, Corporate America

The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.

- Hollis Stacy

topic: Party, America, People, Corporate America

By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.

- Eric Alterman

topic: Powerful, Military, America, Corporate America

Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.

- Paul Gillin

topic: Dirty, Data, America, Corporate America

Now, on the other hand, if we booted all the men out of corporate America, and we had all women there, quite honestly I think they'd be just as corrupt as what we have right now. I think it's best to have diversity and different points of view.

- Vicki Donlan

source: Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

topic: Men, Thinking, Views, Different Points Of View, Corporate America

A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.

- Nolan Bushnell

topic: America, Cookies, Want, Cookie Cutters, Corporate America

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

- Michael Moore

topic: Wall, Party, America, Corporate America

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

- Michael Moore

topic: Wall, America, Want, Corporate America

Drs. Pinkett and Robinson choose to BE the message that they bring! They don't just enumerate the problems but offer solid solutions for navigating pathways to business ownership, and the halls and boardrooms of previously 'all white' corporate America. Black Faces in White Places is a necessary tool for anyone trying to make their own magic happen.

- Malik Yoba

topic: White, America, Black, Corporate America, Black Face

Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.

- Lou Dobbs

source: Lou Dobbs (2006). “War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War ont he American Dream and How to Fight Back”, p.110, Penguin

topic: Cutting, Opportunity, Past, Corporate America, Thirty Years

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Party, America, People, Corporate America

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

- Russ Feingold

source: "A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Mark Byrne, www.gq.com. February 20, 2012.

topic: Party, America, Tea, Corporate America, Shills

During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street and Corporate America. The United States has become ungovernable, unfixable, and, therefore, unsustainable economically, politically, militarily, and environmentally. It has evolved into the wealthiest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all times.

- Thomas Naylor

source: "Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. May 13, 2012.

topic: Wall, Powerful, Government, State Government, Moral Authority

The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Government, America, Broken, Corporate America, Nuclear Bomb

Donald Trump was not a businessman to be admired, but an example of what's wrong with discriminatory corporate America.

- Jennifer Pozner

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: America, Example, Trump, Corporate America

Like the stocks of both Berkshire and Wesco to trade within hailing distance of what we think of as intrinsic value. When it runs up, we try to talk it down. That's not at all common in Corporate America, but that's the way we act.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Running, Distance, Thinking, Corporate America

If Mr. Trump wants to work with us to make sure that trade works for the American worker, not just CEOs of corporate America, you have got a partner, partner.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: America, Want, Trump, Corporate America, American Workers

Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Wall, Agreement, America, Corporate America, Bailouts

I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Thinking, Years, America, Corporate America

The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America.

- George W. Bush

topic: Integrity, Ethical Standards, America, Corporate America

Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

- James Altucher

source: "7 Things That Happen To You When You Are Completely Honest" by James Altucher, jamesaltucher.com. October 12, 2011.

topic: Honesty, America, Jail, Corporate America

If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: America, People, Looks, Stood Up, Corporate America

I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done."

- Carly Fiorina

source: "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

topic: Children, Cancer, Book, Insiders, Corporate America

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Believe, Media, America, Corporate America

I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.

- Irene Rosenfeld

topic: America, Important, Development, Corporate America

Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job.

- Dule Hill

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Psych, Corporate America, Construction Workers

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

- Bill Rancic

topic: Jobs, America, Good Job, Corporate America

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

- Arianna Huffington

source: Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.3, Crown

topic: Business, America, Government, Corporate America

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We've lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They're going to start having to, if I'm president, invest in this country - not in China, not in Mexico.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Country, America, People, Corporate America

Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: America, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Corporate America

Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.

- Jonah Goldberg

topic: Party, Simple, Reality, Left Wing, Corporate America

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.

- Frank Zappa

source: Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

topic: Naughty, America, Car, Used Car, Car Salesman

So when I say that I think we would have a different ethical level, particularly in corporate America, if there were more women involved, I mean that what women are best at is asking questions. Women ask questions over and over again. It drives men nuts. Women tend to ask the detailed questions; they want to know the answers.

- Vicki Donlan

source: Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

topic: Women, Mean, Thinking, Corporate America

For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class. And that means standing up to Wall Street, standing up to the greed of corporate America. Even now and then, standing up to the media. And that means having a candidate who can excite working families, excite young people, bring them into the political process, create a large voter turnout.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Wall, Mean, Winning, Voter Turnout, Corporate America