Flexible Straw Corporation

Famous quotes containing the words flexible, straw and/or corporation:

    “It is safest to be moderately base—to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “Through tattered clothes great vices do appear;
    Robes and furred gowns hide all. Place sin with gold,
    And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks:
    Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw does pierce it.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)