Joe Jamail Quotes

I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.

I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more viciously because everybody wanted that moment.

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

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

I don't know what the hell you're doing here telling us how to discharge our business. You were the worst Secretary of HEW the country ever had.

There is no way they should walk out of that place [Wells Fargo] with millions, tens of millions, tens and tens of millions of dollars, when innocent people who actually flagged this culture of conceit and culture of rip off should've been fired while the people who were doing it somehow are able to just resign and reap the big reward. It's just an outrage. It's people who have forgotten decent values towards other people.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.

Ralph Nader is the single most effective antagonist of American business.

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

We find an organization that is deeply troubled by bad management, by sex and corruption and by a growing lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions that are given to them.

[Lyndon Johnson was] the epitome of the unprincipled politician.

This President [George W. Bush] is a miserable failure.

[Referring to his successor:] The present imbecile chief.

Some American companies operate in the gray area between legitimacy and outright fraud … where the accounting is being perverted.

Bush is an incompetent leader. As a matter of fact he is no leader at all.

They [Standard Oil] had never played fair, and that ruined their greatness for me … the open disregard of decent ethical business practices by capitalists.

There is in much of corporate America an old boys club whose values make it difficult to rat out a friend.

The trouble with General Hooker is that he has his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.

Most corporate disasters are driven not by market forces, but by CEOs messing things up.

For some of us who have seen the other side of Allen Dulles, we don’t see too many Christian traits. I personally consider him a ruthless, ambitious, and utterly incompetent government administrator.