Adam Curtis

Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.

British Director

Stewart Butterfield

The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you're looking at the railway robber baron era or the 1920s or the '50s or the '70s, it used to take a long time for a company to get to the point where they had tens of millions of dollars of revenue. It was almost never an overnight phenomenon.

Canadian Businessman

Charles C. Mann

Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water barons argue, is to put the process in the hands of the market. If water is scarce, then raise the price - let the law of supply and demand take over!

American Journalist

Adam Conover

If it weren't for the fellow union members and leaders who have my back, the barons of the TV industry would happily pay me a nickel a page and spend what would have been my residuals on more caviar to put in their infinity pools.

American Comedian

David Mamet

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

American Dramatist

William Clay Ford, Jr.

In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.

American Businessman

John Boyle O'Reilly

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

Irish Poet

Nick Clegg

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

British Politician

Paul Watson

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

Canadian Environmentalist

Mitch Leigh

The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.

American Musician

Originally, a baron was granted land by the monarch for loyalty or service.

Historical Title

The title 'baron' is specific to British nobility and not used in American titles.

British Specific

A female with the equivalent rank is called a 'baroness', not a baron.

Gendered Term

In business, 'baron' is metaphorical, suggesting control and wealth.

Metaphoric Usage

Calling someone a business baron can informally express admiration or criticism.

Informal Expression

A 'baron' in a field implies great influence or dominance in that area.

Dominance

The term can be attached to any field, from 'media baron' to 'drug baron'.

Field Specific

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 the majority of people under the poverty line still have electricity, water, toilets, refrigerators, television, mobile phones, air conditioning and cars. The wealthiest robber barons of the last century, the emperors on this planet, could have never dreamed of such luxuries.

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 and that you get the right corporate behavior. We need to make the same approach with the Internet. We also are going to need political innovation. Eight hundred years ago, approximately, the barons of England decided

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 just two hours later they return but there's no sign the baron