Quotes About Multinationals

#1. It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

Keith Olbermann

#2. We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

John Sweeney

#3. These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#4. Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

Ma Jun

#5. White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.

Derrick Jensen

#6. Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that.

Mo Ibrahim

#7. It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#8. Well you'd see a very dramatic change in the perspective of small businesses, entrepreneurs, middle-size businesses, and perhaps even some large multinationals. They'd say, you know what, America looks like a good place to invest again, a good place to take risk, a good place to hire again.

Mitt Romney

#9. Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

Ma Jun

#10. So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes.

Bernie Sanders

#11. You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.

Sellapan Ramanathan

#12. As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability to provide the best and most trusted services in the world if they actually desire to do so.

Edward Snowden

#13. Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

James Surowiecki

#14. [European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

Nigel Farage

#15. India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

Baba Kalyani

#16. Dixie?" "Yeah." "You ever try to crack an AI?" "Sure. I flatlined. First time. I was larkin', jacked up real high, out by Rio heavy commerce sector. Big biz, multinationals, Government of Brazil lit up like a Christmas tree.

William Gibson

#17. I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.

Dave Foley

#18. It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.

Trevor Manuel

#19. Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

John Templeton

#20. When she learned how much God loved her, how much he valued her, the soul-corroding shame lost its power.

Jo Ann Fore

#21. Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Russell Kirk

#22. I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

Bill Rancic

#23. Nothing gives you a fear flashback like a bunch of strangers cheering in surprise that you're not dead.

Tina Fey

#24. If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.

A.J. Beirens

#25. It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

Matthew Specktor

#26. This is what makes this team so dangerous: at any time in the game, even after they've gotten hit in the mouth all day, they're still that explosive.

Michael Irvin

#27. People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

Wendell Berry

#28. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain

James Bowen

#29. Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.

Francis Parkman

#30. If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

Ronee Blakley

#31. It doesn't matter what you've got in your pants if there is nothing in your brain to connect it to.

Paul Joannides

#32. He comes out of the mine about the same as when he went in. He has no sense that it was something he decided to do himself, or that he had a choice. He's like totally passive. But I think in real life people are like that. It's not so easy to make choices on your own.

Haruki Murakami

#33. I really liked this cowboy. Mack. But I didn't know a single thing about him other than the fact that he doesn't wear underwear and he's got a big cock-a-doodle doo that he definitely knows how to use. Yee haw.

Elle Casey

#34. If nothing is holy, nothing is profane.

Dennis Prager