Business Quote by William W. Lewis

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 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

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

Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing…

— Chrystia Freeland

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

I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and…

— Masaaki Imai

“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

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

I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.

— Warren Buffett

“It is simply a manifestation of the “first who” principle: It’s not how you compensate your executives, it’s which executives you have to compensate…

— James C. Collins

There is compensation in all things.

— Anna Leonowens