A Commonplace Book

Category: companies...

  • directing a performance of the local theatre company
  • working for an employee-owned company, especially one that gives bonuses
  • a suggestion that saves your company money or gets them great publicity
  • It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. (HD Thoreau)
  • the sole proprietorship, the partnership, and the corporation or limited liability company
  • the modern business corporation is a fusion of the joint-stock company and the legal form of the corporation as it had been developed for medieval guilds, municipalities, monasteries, and universities - during the first two-thirds of the 19th century
  • the first commercial corporation was the New York Fishing Company, chartered in January 1675
  • the first corporation with a net income over $1 billion in a year was General Motors in 1955

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