Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers,… — Jon Katzenbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in the year 2005, but our earnings are still not where we want them to be. We intend… — Dieter Zetsche Copy Share Image
The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
If you can't use dividends, it's not a bad thing to give it back to your shareholders. They'll use it somewhere else. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods. — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
Scale can create value for shareholders; for consumers, who are beneficiaries of better products, delivered more quickly and at less cost; for… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We need a mutual fund industry with both vision and values; a vision of fiduciary duty and shareholder service, and values rooted… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people… — John A. Byrne Copy Share Image
