Eric Schlosser Quotes

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.

The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.

Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.

I'm a corporate thug. That's the best way to be.

The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development.

Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

I will always do what's best for the company.

For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for - and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business.

All business must have a social license to operate.

Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.

When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.

We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.

We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to move forward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanick and many others, and to do so without inflicting gratuitous harm on the company which we have all supported, and for which we continue to have the greatest expectations.

If we start attacking advertisers because of what somebody said - it's the wrong thing to do.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

Americans should boycott Yahoo products until they get the message that freedom is an American ideal, and we're not going to give it up.

I think the presumption is, for some reason, anybody who comes from the business or the corporate world is corrupt.

Companies have greater responsibility to their team members and to the world these days. We're the ones with the power. Large employers are the ones that can move the needle on issues.

CEOs must go beyond working with policy-makers on new regulatory frameworks. They must also commit to the principle that success cannot be measured by profitability and growth alone.

I'm pro-business! But business ought to make its own money.

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.