Business Society Quotes

... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

The U.S. is, to a very unusual extent, a business-run society.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.

The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.

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

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

Institutions, both public and private, exist because the people want them, believe in them, or at least are willing to tolerate them. The day has passed when business was a private matter—if it ever really was. In a business society, every act of business has social consequences.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.