Corporate Priorities Quotes

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

If you're thinking about your brand over your people, you've lost yourself.

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.

Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line.

Excessive pandering to stockholders is as bad as any other form of pandering

I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

As long as you're a company that makes profits, all's good.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!

You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.

There are so few drugs for these killer diseases, but for erectile dysfunction, we have had 14 drugs since 1996… It says something about where the priorities of the pharmaceutical companies seem to lie.

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

I really wanted to stay in Indiana forever, but this is a business and you've got to respect the decisions that are made.

In the quest for perfect protection of Sony's intellectual property, the company threw the privacy and security of their customers under the bus.

Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.

The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of many things would slow down at least for awhile. Stockholders don't want to hear about the saving of the whales or some stream in Kentucky. They want a return on their investment.