Being Quote by Paul Polman

“Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

We don't really look at the stock, you know? Because for us, it's about the long term. And so we're very much focused on…

— Tim Cook

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

— Richard Edelman

If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

— Jeff Bezos

I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder.

— Carl Icahn

In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton…

— Srikumar Rao

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

— Peter Lynch

We're much more focused on the long term than most companies.

— Andy Jassy

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

— Buzz Aldrin

Our responsibility is to maximise shareholder value, and if that means we can make short-term investment where we can maximise short-term value, we can…

— Ajay Piramal

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

We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run…

— John T. Chambers