Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins

If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

We all have the opportunity to be beautiful people...we just live in a corrupt world that will try and stop us at every opportunity.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.