Active Quote by Mark Mobius

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

— Ben Horowitz

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

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

Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Ari Melber

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

— Ben Horowitz

For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies…

— Charles Duhigg

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

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

I do not work for the shareholder, to be honest. I work for the customer.

— Paul Polman

I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.

— Richard Edelman

For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.

— Charlie Munger