The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.
For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.
I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.