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Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If…

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr

“In 1980, the compensation of the average chief executive officer was forty-two times that of the average worker; by the year 2004, the ratio…

— John Bogle

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

— Peter Thiel

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against…

— Warren Buffett

“One answer to that question comes from none other than leading inequality critic Robert Reich. In a 2007 Wall Street Journal column, Reich admitted…

— Don Watkins

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against…

— Warren Buffett

“In fact, the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay has increased from 70 in 1990 to 300 in 2005, and much of…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

The relationship between executive CEO pay, stock performance is tenuous and not easily unscrambled, just one of myriad factors that affect the price of…

— John C. Bogle

“According to the Institute for Policy Studies (Anderson, Collins, Klinger, Pizzigati, 2011) the ratio between a CEO and an average company salary stood at…

— Bernardo Kliksberg

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist…

— Simon Mainwaring

“We find that firms with award-winning CEOs subsequently underperform, in terms both of stock and of operating performance. At the same time, CEO compensation…

— Daniel Kahneman

It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees.

— Chamath Palihapitiya