Great quote: The motivations of public corporations can be found in their balance sheets not in their mission statements

I was reading the Delving into Davos blog and ran across this great line in the comments to a post about Google and Microsoft entitled "The Semantics of Evil":

The motivations of public corporations can be found in their balance sheets not in their mission statements.

I'm not sure if that's a profound truth, unfortunate, or merely amusing, but it does seem to have a ring of truth to it. I'm not even sure whether the commenter considered this to be a positive or negative statement.

-- Jack Krupansky