Corporate Role Quotes

For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel.

Corporations and businesses [don't] create jobs.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.

There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. Corporations are good because they drive our economy, they encourage people to assemble wealth and to risk it and then create jobs.

Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

As CEO of Aetna, I was a buyer of portfolio companies rather than a participant in the value creation process. From the end of the assembly line, what happened in manufacturing wasn't visible to me.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.

If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

America's health depends on all businesses, not just healthcare companies, to do their part.

Our job as a business is not to promote a political agenda. That's not what we do.

Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. If companies shut down, the stock market would collapse.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

You're kind of taught that the role of a business person is the decision making.

I am honored to be named chairman of Duke Energy's board and privileged to lead our company forward for our customers, employees, and shareholders.

I've always been on the business side - running P&L and working with clients.

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.

Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots.

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that's a position that I take seriously. That's the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization.

The line between what government does and what a company does is getting blurred.

The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.