History Quotes / MegaCorp

'''Collector:''' We ''have'' tried war, but the use of economic power is far more effective.

->'''Doctor:''' You blood-sucking leech! You won't stop until you own the entire galaxy, will you. Don't you think commercial imperialism is as bad as military conquest?\\

->''"You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. [[ShutUpKirk There is no America. There is no democracy.]] There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and [=DuPont=], Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime."''

-> ''"You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and [=DuPont=], Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime."''

->''"[[TheEmpire Evil empires]] are a mainstay of [[EasternRPG RPGs]] and {{adventure game}}s. To most gamers, they are things of the distant past... So ''VideoGameFinal/FantasyVII'' gives us Shinra, a megaconglomerate that had dominated the world's market to such an overwhelming degree that it has become the Planet's most influential entity. Shinra is technically nothing more than a business firm operating in (what appears to be) a capitalist system, and yet it has grown so powerful that it has superceded the government of the country in which it has based, take over other cities (like Junon), and even maintains its own military force. I'll spare you the arguments and extracurricular materials and assume you're capable of connecting a few dystopic dots yourself."''

-> ''"The standard breed of evil mega-corporation. The one that somehow runs the government, justice system, media, salvation army, and ice cream vans."''
-->-- [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Croshaw]]

-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}

-->-- '''Richard "Dick" Jones''', ''Film/RoboCop''

-->-- [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Croshaw]]

-->-- '''Arthur Jensen''', ''Film/{{Network}}''

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--->-- '''[[MegaCorp GigaCorp]] [[{{Slogans}} slogan]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Allegiance}}''

-> ''"Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors."''

->'''Tak:''' ''All they see is another faceless corporation, not a plan for world conquest.''\\
'''Dib:''' ''Wait...is there really a difference?''

-->-- '''[[FascistItaly Benito Mussolini]]'''

-->-- Vending machine, ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando''

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-->-- '''Ben Hayflick''', ''ChildrensHospital''

--->-- '''[[MegaCorp GigaCorp]] [[{{Slogans}} slogan]]''', ''{{Allegiance}}''

--->-- '''CEO Nwabudike Morgan - "The Centauri Monopoly"''', ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

--> '''CEO Nwabudike Morgan''', ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

-->-- '''Morgan Data Systems press release''', ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''


->''"Wesayso: We know what you want. We know what you need. We know where you live."''
-->-- ''{{Dinosaurs}}''

-->-- '''Richard "Dick" Jones''', ''RoboCop''

-->-- '''Massive Dynamic motto''', ''{{Fringe}}''

-->-- Vending machine, ''RatchetAndClankGoingCommando''

->''"Take a close look at the track record of this company. You'll see that we've gambled in markets usually regarded as nonprofit. Hospitals. Prisons. Space exploration. I say good business is where you find it."''

-->-- '''{{Dilbert}}'''

-->-- ''InvaderZim''

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->Tomorrow's resources, ''today''!

->And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary government, from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls the planet. In former times the energy monopoly was called "The Power Company"; we intend to give this name an entirely new meaning.

-> Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.

-> Of course we'll bundle our Morgan-Net software with the new network nodes; our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us.

->Wesayso: We know what you want. We know what you need. We know where you live.

->Take a close look at the track record of this company. You'll see that we've gambled in markets usually regarded as nonprofit. Hospitals. Prisons. Space exploration. I say good business is where you find it.

-> Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

->'''Tak:''' All they see is another faceless corporation, not a plan for world conquest.\\
'''Dib:''' Wait...is there really a difference?

->Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism, because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

->Corporation, noun: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
-->-- '''Ambrose Bierce'''

->What do we do? What ''don't'' we do?

->[[TropeNamer Megacorp]]: Your best choice. Your ONLY choice.

->Take a close look at the track record of this company. You'll see that we've gambled in markets usually regarded as nonprofit. Hospitals. Prisons. Space exploration[[hottip:*:[[[HilariousInHindsight all of which have a significant private presence today]]]. I say good business is where you find it.

->Take a close look at the track record of this company. You'll see that we've gambled in markets usually regarded as nonprofit. Hospitals. Prisons. Space exploration. I say good business is where you find it.

->Take a close look at the track record of this company. You'll see that we've gambled in markets usually regarded as nonprofit. Hospitals. Prisons. Space exploration. I say, good business is where you find it.