Investing Quote by Don Watkins

“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

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 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

“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

“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

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

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

The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their compensation and…

— Paul Krugman

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 inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy…

— Danny K. Davis

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

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

— Peter Thiel