CM Punk Quotes

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.

There's always more employers can do to protect their employees.

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.

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.

We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

Disregard for workers' health protection is not what American industry is supposed to be about.

There is nothing to stop him from making coal mines safe except his lack of desire to do so …. J. A. Krug permitted these men to die by his inaction.

How can it be that employers are paying high rates, injured workers are getting relatively modest benefits and the insurance companies are not making a profit?

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

I oppose increased black-lung benefits for miners, because ‘they chose to be miners.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

There is a dire need to create awareness regarding proper and safe use of laboratory equipment among lab workers and assistants, since it not only affects the worker but the people attached to them.

Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.

Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety.

One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it's professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There's dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.

If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.