Stockholder Quotes

#1. I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.

T. Boone Pickens

#2. In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities connected to Texaco was brought forward at their stockholder meeting by Amazon Watch, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the Amazon.

Peter Coyote

#3. An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.

Felix Riesenberg

#4. I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.

Kenneth Langone

#5. Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

T. Boone Pickens

#7. I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.

T. Boone Pickens

#8. The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Steven Pinker

#9. Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. There's a discomfort associated with trying to put all those different ways the brain works together. I kind of like to avail myself of that discomfort.

Jessica Stockholder

#10. It's an odd thing to be sad about someone in death that you never really cared for in life and a thing that chooses its own moment to sneak up on you - usually

Mark Lawrence

#11. There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.

Jessica Stockholder

#12. If the past has taught me one thing, it is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Heather Stotz

#13. It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

#14. Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Dalai Lama XIV

#15. To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#16. I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

William Julius Wilson

#17. But we're all still KGB really. Old wine, new bottles.

Lee Child

#18. Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Joseph Stalin

#19. To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

James Buchanan