Economy Quote by Danny K. Davis

This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to…

— Bernie Sanders

“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

“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

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

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result…

— Barney Frank

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 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

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

— Chamath Palihapitiya

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

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

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

Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this…

— Sharan Burrow