Activists Quote by Ben Horowitz

I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder.

— Carl Icahn

The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve…

— Norman Lear

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of…

— Mark Mobius

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

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that…

— Charlie Munger

In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders -…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

I think every company has its own unique approach to creating shareholder value.

— Kenneth Frazier

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

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to…

— Sanford I. Weill

Shareholders, of course, have every right to weigh in on whether (or how) they want a company to exercise political influence.

— Ari Melber

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

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

— Paul Polman