#corporations

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. ↗

— Peter Bart

#became #corporations #hollywood #irritant #minor

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do. ↗

— Howard Dean

#american #american life #corporations #influence #life

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#back #banks #completely #corporations #exclusively

April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags. ↗

— Ed Helms

#advice #april #bags #corporations #filing

This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#food

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#federal #income #income tax #individuals #pay

...pointed out that the corporation enjoys the same rights as a living person under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This concept was upheld in 1886 by the Supreme Court in 'Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company' and has been a fact of law ever since. I emphasized to those executives that the corporation should also be required to accept the same responsibilities as those expected of a person; it too should be a good citizen, an honorable, ethical member of the community. In the case of international corporations, that community has to be defined as the world. ↗

— John Perkins

#corporations #responsibilities #supreme-court #men

American corporations hate to give away money. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#away #corporations #give #hate #money

The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here. ↗

— David Plouffe

#advantage #afford #along #american #american people

There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#different #entrepreneurial #heads #little #some