Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes

There seems to be something sacrosanct about big business.

I don't believe we're the party of big business.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Because of my politics, I don't necessarily think that the independent capitalist is that much better than the multinational capitalist; it's just that the independent capitalist hasn't grown as big yet.

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

Combinations [large corporate conglomerates], governed entirely by the law of greed … threaten the integrity of our institutions.

The time has come when the railroad corporations will either own the people or the people must own the railroads;

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

Theodore Roosevelt understood that unregulated monopoly could pose an even greater threat than unrestrained government.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

The two greatest enemies of free enterprise in the United States, in my opinion, have been, on the one hand, my fellow intellectuals and, on the other hand, the business corporations of this country. They are enemies for opposite reasons.