Quotes of: Shareholders Keyword

Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.

Simon Mainwaring

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

Anthony Weiner

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with th...

Mark Mobius

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then...

Harold Simmons

With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money ...

Nancy Grace

Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who can switch from seller to seller with relative ease. Consumer and shareholder activism is a form of protest th...

Noreena Hertz

In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on be...

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

Alexei Mordashov

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

Carlos Ghosn

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

Arpad Busson

I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.

S. Truett Cathy

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

Carly Fiorina

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

Ben Horowitz

I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility.

Guler Sabanci

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

Chris Martin

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

Ben Horowitz

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

Alex Berenson

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

John Gutfreund

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

Bob Diamond

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

Carlos Ghosn

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

N. Robert Hammer