A Corporation has No Conscience

Image by The Rocketeer via FlickrDo not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. – James J. Ling




Labor is the capital of our working men. – Grover Cleveland



A corporation cannot blush. – Howell Walsh



It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation without a conscience. – Henry David Throeau



The modern corporation is a political institution; its purpose is the creation of legitimate power in the industrial sphere. – Peter F. Drucker



Concentration of economic power in all-embracing corporations represents a kind of private government which is a power unto itself – a regimentation of other people’s money and other people’s lives. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt



Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters. – Grover Cleveland

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How Did the Snail Reach the Ark?

Image via WikipediaPerseverance is another name for success. – Anonymous




When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt



One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome. – Fulton J. Sheen



The last key in the bunch is often the one to open the lock. – Anonymous



Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. – Walter Elliott



One of the first rules of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering. – Carolyn Wells



By perseverance the snail reached the Ark. - Charles Spurgeon

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An Arch Never Sleeps

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Q: Why is the stock market like an oven?


A: They can both be self-cleaning. – anonymous



Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles. – Andrew Maurois



Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorb consolidation and profits at the expense of others. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt



A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. – Frank Lloyd Wright



To build is to be robbed. – Samuel Johnson



An arch never sleeps. – Hindu proverb



Good architecture lets nature in. – Mario Pei

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