Shareholder Quotes

#1. As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.

Steve Ballmer

#2. If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

Jeff Bezos

#3. When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

Thomas Piketty

#4. The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God,

John Le Carre

#5. My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.

Michael Lee-Chin

#6. Remember that it is changes in the slope of the platform, not the level of the platform, that create shareholder value at an above-average rate.

Clayton M Christensen

#7. Everyone's an equal shareholder. Birth shares are inalienable, and death duties are unavoidable. The estate tax is one hundred per cent. In between, you can buy and sell and earn as much as you like.

Ken MacLeod

#8. We've found, empirically, that long-term revenue growth - particularly organic revenue growth - is the most important driver of shareholder returns for companies with high returns on capital.

Tim Koller

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Stop Destroying Shareholder Value

Miles Anthony Smith

#14. Well, Mr Ward. Given how much sex we have, I'd say you're the majority shareholder of power in this relationship.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#15. 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

#16. Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management - this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate.

Richard Branson

#17. When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

Ben Horowitz

#18. It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.

Michael Otto

#19. I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

Romesh Wadhwani

#20. My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.

Maurice Strong

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

Eric Reguly

#22. I hope I live to see a day when a yellow rose[183] is extended between the warring factions of shareholder and employee value.

Lata Subramanian

#23. Once America's CEOs get back to the business of growing their companies rather than growing their share prices, shareholder value will take care of itself, and all Americans will share in the higher wages and other benefits of a renewed era of economic growth.

Nick Hanauer

#24. We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Joe Jamail

#25. Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster.

Robert Reich

#26. What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.

Juan Somavia

#27. Proxy rules: A "proxy" is a document in which the shareholder appoints someone (typically management) to cast his vote for one or more specified actions.

Steven L. Emanuel

#28. China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.

Roger Altman

#29. We are in the midst of the evolution of capitalism from a century focused on maximizing short-term shareholder value to one focused on maximizing long-term shared value. According

Ryan Honeyman

#30. If you're an investor who wants a little bit more from the capital-appreciation side of things, but still likes this concept of getting 'paid by the company,' then we would tell that investor to pursue shareholder yield.

James O'Shaughnessy

#31. Certain first-year-physics conservation-of-momentum issues dictated that I be showered with former pig bowel contents in order to enhance shareholder value.

Neal Stephenson

#32. I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.

Dov Seidman

#33. I have to look out for the shareholder's interests, and I'm the largest shareholder.

Carl Icahn

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

Ben Horowitz

#35. Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

Alex Berenson

#36. Shareholder value is an outcome - not a strategy" [BusinessWeek 2009].

Jurgen Appelo

#37. 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

#38. I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

Gregg Easterbrook

#39. It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods.

Andrea Jung

#40. I'm a shareholder in three networks in Holland. That allows me to put ideas that we create in Holland on air in Holland, and if it works, then we distribute the show's format globally.

John De Mol Jr.

#41. 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

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

Ben Horowitz

#43. Study after study, however, concludes that about 90 percent of all publicly traded companies have proved themselves unable to sustain for more than a few years a growth trajectory that creates above-average shareholder returns.

Clayton M Christensen

#44. Fletcher Von Pein was one of the twelve founders of the Omega Agency. He was also a powerful banker and a majority shareholder in the US Federal Reserve which, despite its misleading name, had zero government ownership and was actually a private corporation owned by the global elite.

James Morcan

#45. On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world,

Jack Welch

#46. 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

#47. Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

Jay Samit

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

N. Robert Hammer

#49. Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Ronald Reagan

#50. The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

Barry Ritholtz

#51. The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy.

Jack Ma

#52. Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.

Michael Porter