If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.
James SurowieckiIn confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
James SurowieckiWall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
James SurowieckiThe typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.
James Surowiecki