Shareholders Quotes - Page 6

• Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Eye, Long, Giving

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• Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.

  Herbert Schiller

  Effort, Strive, Advantage

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

  Eric Reguly

  Jobs, Faces, Lost

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• All this plan does is make everybody a capitalist. I know that the New York Stock Exchange says there are 25 million shareholders in the United States, but let me tell you something: about 15 million of those people could save their dividends for 10 years and maybe buy a new suit. That's not what I call capitalism.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, New York, Years

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• I'm a spreadsheet guy. But you get to that moment of truth, and it has nothing to do with a spreadsheet. You've got to factor in what your competitors are doing, what the technology is doing, what your shareholders want, what your employees want, what your customers want, and you've got to make it happen sometimes.

  Brian Roberts

  Technology, Guy, Want

  Source: usatoday30.usatoday.com

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• Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

  Arpad Busson

  Charity, Treats, Donors

  "Can this 'venture philanthropist' save our schools?". www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

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• If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Numbers, Looks

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• What we've done last night is what I call pushing back the risks..If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that? What can you do to recapitalise yourself? If the bank can't do it, then we'll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders, we'll ask them to contribute in recapitalising the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders.

  Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  Night, Risk, Pushing Back

  "After Cyprus, eurozone faces tough bank regime - Eurogroup head" by Luke Baker, uk.reuters.com. March 25, 2013.

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• The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

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• I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.

  Paul Polman

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

  "Unilever's Paul Polman: challenging the corporate status quo" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Winning, Giving

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

  John le Carre

  Views, Sick, Dying

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• We need a mutual fund industry with both vision and values; a vision of fiduciary duty and shareholder service, and values rooted in the proven principles of long-term investing and of trusteeship that demands integrity in serving our clients.

  John C. Bogle

  Integrity, Long, Vision

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life”, p.156, John Wiley & Sons

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• Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Fossils, Cost

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Strong, Player

  Les Echos interview, www.sec.gov. January 30, 2006.

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• After a long investigation the SEC has fined Halliburton $7.5 million for issuing fraudulent statements exaggerating their profits in 1998 and 1999 during which their CEO was - oh who was it? Oh that's right. ... Cheney himself has not been implicated in the scandal and according to Cheney's lawyer there is no allegation whatsoever that he acted in any way other than in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. And you know what? It's still true today.

  Jon Stewart

  Long, Scandal, Today

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• We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

  James L. Barksdale

  World, Information, Feedback

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• If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.

  Jamie Dimon

  Government, Guarantees, Done

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• To build and sustain brands people love and trust, one must focus-not only on today but also on tomorrow. It's not easy...but balancing the short and long term is key to delivering sustainable, profitable growth-growth that is good for our shareholders but also good for our consumers, our employees, our business partners, the communities where we live and work, and the planet we inhabit

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Responsibility, Keys, Long

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• They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions based on: "How does it affect me, now? How does it affect the next shareholders meeting, three months ahead? How does it affect my next political campaign?"

  Jane Goodall

  People, Decision, Political

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: I'm not going to fight for animal rights". Interview with Laura Sevier, www.theecologist.org. April 12, 2010.

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• The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Fate, Greed

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that could have made for dividend payouts, but it also is money that's uplifting and improving the quality of life of people in the rural areas where we operate and work. We owe them that.

  Ratan Tata

  Uplifting, Money, People

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• Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.

  Jon Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Real, Sight

  Jon Katzenbach, Douglas Smith (2015). “The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization”, p.7, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy. We cannot keep our democracy if those who are in charge of handling the engines of our economy are not honest with their shareholders. That's why there is a role for government regulation here. That role for government is breaking up the monopolies, insisting on public disclosure, insisting on public audits, insisting on restitution whenever someone has been cheated.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, Wall, Government

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• I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind.
  It's also true I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and would not do anything that I considered improper.
  As a consequence, I have occasionally pursued issues during my career that other people might have avoided.

  Chris Corrigan

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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