Friday, December 4, 2009

A Corporation Cannot Blush - But Some Should

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers

They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. – Sir Edward Coke

Americans: people who laugh at African witch doctors and spend 100 million dollars on fake reducing systems. – Leonard Louis Levinson

A corporation cannot blush. – anonymous

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. – Henry David Thoreau

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. – Edmund Burke

I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. – Ivan Boesky

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it. – Andrew Young

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


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