Argue Quote by 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

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

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

— Peter Thiel

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

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

“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

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

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

— Chamath Palihapitiya

The CEO announces that the purpose of the firm is to improve the lives of the customers and the lives of the firm's stakeholders…

— Philip Kotler

“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

“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