Welcome to Corporation Quotes, where we delve into the world of business, leadership, and innovation through the lens of insightful quotes from renowned figures and thought leaders. In the dynamic landscape of corporations, where strategies are crafted, decisions made, and visions realized, words have the power to inspire, motivate, and shape the direction of enterprises.
From iconic entrepreneurs to visionary CEOs, these quotes encapsulate the essence of corporate culture, offering pearls of wisdom, cautionary tales, and profound insights into the workings of the business world. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned executive, or simply intrigued by the inner workings of corporations, this collection of quotes serves as a source of inspiration, guidance, and reflection.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes spanning various aspects of corporate life, from leadership and innovation to ethics and perseverance. Feel free to explore, ponder, and draw inspiration from these words as you navigate the complexities of the corporate realm.
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
After all, sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc. – like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. Maurice Strong
If you’re a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you’re an individual like me, you can’t. Larry Wall
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. Ed McMahon
I don’t want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free. Annie Lennox
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry. Ann Macbeth
I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation. Trini Lopez
If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary. Russell Simmons
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual – and unusual – life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin’s life, the literary and artistic. Patrick Kavanagh
Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn’t do it without some shoe leather. Stuart Symington
Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that’s not true. There’s no programming of the brain. There’s no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a corporation, you have subdivisions which operate independently of the main office. Michio Kaku
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people. Don Tapscott
How important is failure – yes, failure – to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India’s largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed. Naveen Jain
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. Atom Egoyan
The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can’t Washington? J. C. Watts
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada. John Strachan
I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes. Jane Poynter
I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED. Shuji Nakamura
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. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A corporation is organized as a system – it has this department, that department, that department… they don’t have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on. David Bohm
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations. Earl Blumenauer
The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain’s, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes. John Redwood
Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that’s not from a corporation trying to make money. Iris Dement
Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they’ve squashed stories that they don’t want the public to know about. Tom Scholz
I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC’s Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World. Pauline Neville-Jones
My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs. Brigid Berlin
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can’t quite imagine if you’ve spent your whole career in a corporation. Harvey Mackay
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists – the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. Mary Harris Jones
I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked. Diane von Furstenberg
Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time trying to find the correct piece of information. Stewart Butterfield
It really hasn’t been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity. Peter Bart
No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you. George Matthew Adams
At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings. Norman Lear
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director’s chair. Gloria Swanson
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box. Bob Brown
A healthy corporation acts on the interests of its stakeholders and customers. Ari Melber
A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors. Margaret Heffernan
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed – I’m sorry, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total. Ta-Nehisi Coates
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign. Bernie Sanders
I’d love to have done ‘John Carter.’ I’d love to work for the Disney Corporation. Tony Kaye
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices. Ulysses S. Grant
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith
I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students’ potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation. Amar Bose
Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they’re not an American corporation. They don’t work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy. Adam McKay
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. Thomas Watson, Jr.
There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it’s also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation. James Surowiecki
Talking about corporations – they’re so big. There’s not a person at a corporation. Greg Kinnear
I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry. Anne Graham Lotz
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. Arthur Rock
It doesn’t take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation. Scott Adams
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. Rutherford B. Hayes
The larger the state, the more callous it becomes… the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers. Dennis Prager
When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need. Joko Widodo
When you’re a corporation, you’re going to stick with what works. That’s why every McDonald’s is the same. will.i.am
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. C. Wright Mills
I wasn’t always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time – I’d earned a bachelor’s degree, a law degree, and an MBA – and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago. John T. Chambers
Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’ This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations. Adam McKay
The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn’t speak; it’s just there, and you can advertise it. Frank Luntz
You don’t have to work for a big corporation if you don’t want to. Daymond John
I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you’re then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more. Ken Livingstone
With every story that TV covers, somebody – some corporation, some shareholders – are making money. That’s true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that’s sold, somebody’s making a dime. Nancy Grace
The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation… and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business. Harry F. Byrd
In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of maturity that commercial products were possible. With this as a goal, we founded UNLAX Corporation. Alan J. Heeger
Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000. Jay Inslee
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. Joni Mitchell
American Idol’ is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can’t come off with lies – it’s either the truth or nothing. Corey Clark
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 change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation. Tibor Kalman
Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within ‘the law.’ Michael Moore
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. Daniel J. Boorstin
A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn’t get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn’t have any permanent relationship within the corporation. John Lydon
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930. Leo Baekeland
You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. Rupert Murdoch
You don’t need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself. You can establish who you are with a social media following. Ray Allen
I don’t think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer. Alan Siegel
A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. Larry Ellison
Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is. Robert Reich
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn’t read. Walter Dean Myers
Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations. Coretta Scott King
Debt is a drag, a reality you may experience with every credit-card bill you open. But for a corporation or a government, it can be even more of a drag – on economic growth and job creation. Mark McKinnon
He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency. Lee R. Raymond
While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for. Robert Teeter
If it’s time to party, it’s time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I’m chilling at home though, I’m listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical. Alexis Knapp
To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn’t just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations – it’s also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running. Matt Taibbi
In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO. Lee Iacocca
The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don’t believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you’re being censored. Penn Jillette
Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We’re living our lives inside one form of corporation or another. Robert D. Kaplan
I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don’t know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison. Jon Tester
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church – like the corporation – to be successful. Henri Nouwen
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine. Noam Chomsky
The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows. P. J. O’Rourke
HCL is a corporation. It is for profits. A corporation stands for its shareholders, its profits, its employees, its discoveries, and its customers. Shiv Nadar
To reduce repossessions caused by unemployment, Gordon Brown needs to look at cutting the rate of corporation tax for small companies to 20 per cent and the main rate to 25 per cent, while reducing the rate of employers’ national insurance by 1% for the smallest companies. Grant Shapps
Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person. Dean Smith
A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed. Ben Stein
Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don’t think there was anyone that was as shocked by the – by the collapse of the company as I was. Jeffrey Skilling
To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice. Madeleine M. Kunin
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott
In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost. Maurice Strong