Shareholders Quotes - Page 2

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

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, Evil, World

  "Coldplay's frontman turns on 'evil' shareholders". www.independent.co.uk. May 18, 2005.

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• Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

  Richard Branson

  Loyal Customers, Aviation, Employee

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• I sometimes wonder how some people can live with themselves in some of the big companies today. So many far-reaching decisions are based on how they will affect the next shareholders' meeting.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Decision, Today

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.

  Jack Ma

  Firsts, Employee, Thirds

  "11 Things Billionaires Can Teach You About Small Business" by Helen Callier, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2017.

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• A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Money, Mean, People

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• The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

  John A. Byrne

  Business, Believe, Fall

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• In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.

  Jacque Fresco

  Responsibility, Challenges, Earth

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• I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

  Martha Stewart

  Asking, My Family, Colleagues

  Martha Stewart (2006). “The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business”, p.121, Rodale

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• We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.

  Martha Stewart

  Kids, Home, Garden

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• Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Party, Views, Political

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• Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Achievement

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• In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

  Daniel Yergin

  Money, Couple, Years

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• What we're trying to do is determine if our shareholders and customers have been misled. We can't think of a single shareholder who would believe that the PSC order isn't in their best interest.

  Chad Jones

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Healthy, Arguing

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.159, Penguin

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• We generated $13.5 billion in cash flow from operations and returned almost $21 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during the March quarter. That brings cumulative payments under our capital return program to $66 billion.

  Peter Oppenheimer

  Cash Flow, Return, March

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• I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Jobs, Ideas

  "Lee Iacocca, The !dea Man". Interview with David E. Davis, Jr., www.motortrend.com. October 5, 2005.

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• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would produce more jobs. There's a great deal of evidence that they produce more competition for the jobs that exist, and in turn, drive down the cost of labour. Nothing pleases a corporation more than having five people compete for the same job. Competitiveness means good times for machines, not workers, because our tax systems privilege machines over workers.A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

  Eric Reguly

  Jobs, Mean, Hard Work

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• Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

  Jamie Dimon

  Business, Benefits, Succeed

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• Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  One Day, Employee, Reliance

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

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Pay, Should

  "Robin Roberts Grills Carly Fiorina on 'Too Extreme' Sarah Palin". Interview with Robin Roberts, www.newsbusters.org. October 29, 2010.

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• The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Strength, Strong, Diversity

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• I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Thinking, People

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• The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

  Peter Lynch

  Office, Extravagance, Rewards

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• We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

  Larry Page

  Business, Believe, Long

  "Google tax avoidance is 'wrong', insists Ed Miliband" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2013.

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