Capable Quote by Alan Greenspan

Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves…

— Simon Mainwaring

I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind. It's also true I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and would…

— Chris Corrigan

But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent…

— James Surowiecki

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

— Mian Muhammad Mansha

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 do it.…

— Harold Simmons

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under…

— Herve Falciani

Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder.

— Paul Polman

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

— Henry David Thoreau

The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that…

— Warren Buffett

I have a responsibility to banks, to shareholders.

— Arnon Milchan

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

— Bob Diamond