Shareholders Quotes · Page 2

I have a responsibility to banks, to shareholders.

— Arnon Milchan

“Customers are first, Employees are Second and the Shareholders are third.”

— Think Maverick

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

— Carly Fiorina

I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the…

— Masaaki Imai

We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We…

— Mary Schapiro

Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the…

— Dhirubhai Ambani

Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.

— Mariana Mazzucato

I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my…

— Jack Ma

Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides,…

— Herbert Schiller

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they…

— Barton Gellman

This is an amazingly sound place. We are more disaster-resistant than most other places. We haven't pushed it as hard as other…

— Charlie Munger

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to…

— Harold Simmons

If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to…

— Jeroen Dijsselbloem

DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in the year 2005, but our earnings are still not where we want them to be. We intend…

— Dieter Zetsche

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not…

— Dianne Feinstein

I am the largest market shareholder of clothing in the U.K. and I am not a destination shop for food. If the…

— Stuart Rose

In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out.…

— Tyler Cowen

I agree with Peter Drucker that the culture and legal systems of the United Statesare especially favorable to shareholder interests, compared to…

— Charlie Munger

When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

We like our current shareholders and don't want to entice anyone to become one. It would help current shareholders to hear our…

— Charlie Munger

I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures…

— Warren Buffett

Shareholder value gets lost when things are done illegally, when corporate governance is not adhered to, when cohesive action is not taken.

— Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we…

— Bill McKibben

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a…

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Andrea Jung

The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the…

— Jack Ma

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders…

— Herb Kelleher

I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was…

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Ronald Reagan

When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries…

— Peter Lynch

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

I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility.

— Guler Sabanci

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

— Eliot Spitzer

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done…

— John le Carre

My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good…

— Phil Knight

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

— Jack Welch

Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders—in that order.

— Simon Sinek

We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes…

— John A. Byrne

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

— Anonymous