Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization…

You are as good as your product. When you are used and loved by everyone, your brand equity is high. When you are not,…

— Mark Pincus

It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.

— Patricia Schroeder

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with…

— Sam Altman

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

— Sam Altman

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

— Sam Altman

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

— Sam Altman

I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up…

— Charlie Munger

Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate…

— Warren Buffett

A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority…

— Alan Greenspan

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

— Paul Krugman

The first major issue you need to consider when focusing on today's workers: You have to know what motivates them. If you think it's…

— Linda Rottenberg

When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks…

— Mark Mobius

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have…

— Michel de Montaigne

The basic idea of retirement income is, to me, to get a check, two checks every month, one from your fixed income and one…

— John C. Bogle

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman