As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
Robert ReichRead
Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote highlights that corporations determine their own identity and allegiance, rather than being tied to a specific national identity.
Robert Reich suggests that in today's globalized economy, corporations exercise the power to define their own national identity based on their interests. This can lead to a detachment from traditional notions of citizenship or loyalty to a particular country, as corporations often prioritize profit and operational efficiency over national ties. As a result, the meaning of corporate nationality becomes fluid and subjective, shaped by corporate agendas and market dynamics.
Themes
CorporateNationalityIdentityGlobalizationCorporation
In practice
Example use cases
During a business seminar discussing globalization, this quote can illustrate the changing dynamics of corporate identity.
More from Robert Reich
All quotes →What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
Robert ReichRead
What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.
Robert ReichRead
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.
Robert ReichRead
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.
Robert ReichRead
You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.
Robert ReichRead
Similar quotes
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan DoyleRead
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.
Friedrich August Von HayekRead
...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.
Alfred MeleRead
Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of? Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.
Eckhart TolleRead
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
Alan WattsRead
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.
Eckhart TolleRead