#corp

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it. ↗

— Juan Cole

#did #flat #flat tax #income #individual

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#change #confront #corporate #development #economic

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#completely #controls #corporate #current #everyone

Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority. ↗

— John Culberson

#authority #border #corps #custody #delivered

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen. ↗

— John Cusack

#eat #fewer #general #got #making

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#allocating #among #channeling #corporate #crucial

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#avoiding #big #clear #collateral #company

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#break #corporate #doing #go #independent

Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject. ↗

— Joe Grant

#corporate #direction #disney #early #five

Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soon as fear begins to ascend, anatomically, from the pit of the stomach to the throat and brain, from fear of violence to the more nameless kind, you come to believe you are part of a horrible experiment. I learned to distrust those superiors who encouraged independent thinking. When you gave it to them, they returned it in the form of terror, for they knew that ideas, only that, could hasten their obsolescence. Management asked for new ideas all the time; memos circulated down the echelons, requesting bold and challenging concepts. But I learned that new ideas could finish you unless you wrapped them in a plastic bag. I learned that most of the secretaries were more intelligent than most of the executives and that the executive secretaries were to be feared more than anyone. I learned what closed doors meant and that friendship was not negotiable currency and how important it was to lie even when there was no need to lie. Words and meanings were at odds. Words did not say what was being said nor even its reverse. I learned to speak a new language and soon mastered the special elements of that tongue. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#fiction #organization #experience