Corporate Obligations Quotes

I've signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file - every single one of them.

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.

They [corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.

As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders.

ESG investing often marches under the same banner as 'stakeholder capitalism,' which maintains that corporations owe obligations to a range of constituencies, not only their shareholders.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

The notion that a business is clothed with a public interest and has been devoted to the public use is little more than a fiction intended to beautify what is disagreeable to the sufferers.

I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer.