Shareholders Quotes · Page 2

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something…

— Dhirubhai Ambani

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

— Ivan Glasenberg

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

A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a…

— Anonymous

If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

— Jeff Bezos

“Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third - ultimately that's in the best interest of…

— Richard Branson

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

— James Surowiecki

Scale can create value for shareholders; for consumers, who are beneficiaries of better products, delivered more quickly and at less cost; for…

— Jamie Dimon

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

The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of…

— Wayne Huizenga

Shareholders are sort of like cats; they get herded around, and they follow the leader. With the exception of a few activist…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests…

— Joel Bakan

For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives,…

— Charles Duhigg

If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things.…

— Warren Buffett

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to…

— Daniel Yergin

What we've done last night is what I call pushing back the risks..If there is a risk in a bank, our first…

— Jeroen Dijsselbloem

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

The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy.…

— Dennis Kucinich

After a long investigation the SEC has fined Halliburton $7.5 million for issuing fraudulent statements exaggerating their profits in 1998 and 1999…

— Jon Stewart

I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends…

— Jack Welch

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

— Bob Diamond

If you have a business that isn't growing the top line, it's very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.

— Soren Skou

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to…

— Alex Berenson

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

As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.

— Steve Ballmer

With management and employees on the same side of the table, your interests are aligned, and shareholders look at you as one.

— Howard Lutnick

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

— Jack Ma

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

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

— Richard Branson

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

— Masaaki Imai

I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.

— S. Truett Cathy

For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs…

— Charlie Munger

They [in the New York Times] are really, really bad people. The largest shareholder in the Times is Carlos Slim.

— Donald Trump

Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

— Alex Berenson