Awards Quote by Barack Obama

I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.

— Warren Buffett

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste…

— Jim Gibbons

“Even the highest compensation is a tiny fraction of the value created by many business and technical innovations. The problem with executive compensation in…

— William W. Lewis

The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which…

— Anthony Scaramucci

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

“[Obama] was highly praised, including by his supporters, for his statesmanlike attitude during the lame-duck session, bipartisanship, and getting legislation through. What did he…

— Noam Chomsky

Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide incentives that…

— Mervyn King

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

I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and…

— Masaaki Imai

Economic liberalisation has seen a big and often well-deserved spurt in executive compensation, especially for professional managers.

— Sucheta Dalal

“Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise…

— Michael Harrington