Shareholder Value Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Stop Destroying Shareholder Value

Miles Anthony Smith

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

N. Robert Hammer

#11. 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

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

Jack Welch

#13. 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

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

Andrea Jung

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

Jurgen Appelo

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

Dov Seidman

#17. 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

#18. Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

Harry Graham

#19. It's not about where you come from. It's about who you are

T.J. Klune

#20. I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Tina Brown

#21. To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

Frederick Soddy

#22. The homosexuals fist fuck in the steam room
while the janitor isn't looking. He calls
and never speaks but you can hear Oahu rain.
Press your ear against the glass and heart another
life
not happening, the soundless blur of snow
on the plasma screen.

Eric Gamalinda

#23. 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

#24. Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Herman Melville

#25. 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