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We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is
the absence of real corporate democracy.

—Carl Icahn, investor

The most important thing I’ve learned since becoming CEO is context. It’s how
your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

—Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE (from interview with Fast Company magazine, April 1,
2004)

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is
thought of in quarters.

—Henry Kravis, investor and financier (from interview with American Academy of Achievement)

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators,
because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know
how to explain their quarterly results, but they don’t know how to explain what
they mean.

—Frank Luntz, political consultant and pollster (from PBS’s Frontline show, November 9, 2004)
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the
form of extra jobs.

—Andrew Mellon, banker, industrialist, and philanthropist

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits.
They will be embarrassingly large.

—Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co. (Ford Motors PR compilation)