Corporations are less amenable to Disgrace and Punishment

Image by This Year's Love via FlickrA Corporation cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. – Sir Edward Coke




The ancient Hebrews had a goat on which all the sins were placed, so the holding company isn’t new. – anonymous



Free enterprise ended in the United States a good many years ago. Big oil, big steel, big agriculture, avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and drive out the small entrepreneur. In their conglomerate forms, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the legitimacy of the State. – Gore Vidal

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and we are less amenable to disgrace and punishment. – William Hazlitt

The fact that 25% of businesses fail in the first year and less than 20% are still in business 10 years later is because of lack of proper planning. – Jesse Werner

Never have partners. – Howard Hughes’s Father

Chop you own wood and it will warm you twice. - Proverb