"Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer."
Al Ries, Chairman, Trout & Ries Advertising Inc.
"Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa."
T. Boone Pickens, Chairman, Mesa Petroleum Co.
"Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."
"So the questions is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not."
"There's nothing illegal about making obscene amounts of money, to be sure. But how is it that, quarter after quarter, Microsoft miracurously brings in the bucks -- despite market turmoil around the globe, constant change in the software industry and the frequent failure of many of its own projects? Gee, maybe it has something to do with the nature of the monopoly and monopoly profits."
Scott Rosenberg, U.S. writer
"They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls."
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