Ahead Quote by Carly Fiorina

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 to their…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and…

— Anonymous

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

— Peter Thiel

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

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

— Ivan Glasenberg

“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

The days of CEOs getting rich while shareholders lose has got to end. Management must be accountable.

— John Paulson

I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

— Richard Kinder

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people…

— Lisa Su

“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

CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.

— Carl Icahn

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

— Mark McKinnon