Quotes About Shareholder value

Once America's CEOs get back to the business of growing their companies rather than growing their share prices, shareholder value will take care of itself, and all Americans will share in the higher wages and other benefits of a renewed era of economic growth.

I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.

In private companies that are successful, the management have learnt to put their staff first, customers second, shareholders last.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Managing with a long-term perspective is difficult in the face of the shareholder value emphasis, and other pressures, facing U.S. managers.

we need to find measures of long-term performance to supplement or replace short-term financials, measures that will be convincing enough to satisfy shareholders.

Diverse perspectives lead to a better outcome. There's so much data, when you look at the math, in terms of the investor returns and the shareholder value that gets created from more diverse boards.

Chasing revenues that don't have good earnings doesn't help us or shareholders one lick.

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.

I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.

The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients.

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Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s - deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.

All I'm trying to do is manage money and take care of my shareholders.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

Publicly traded corporations, including Facebook, are legally required to maximize shareholder value, and while some CEOs define value expansively, most focus on the bottom line.

By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.

If you have a business that isn't growing the top line, it's very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.

TO SUCCEED, A BUSINESS'S STRATEGY needs to be relevant to its employees, shareholders and customers. As well as increasing its profitability and value and meeting any other goals that may be set, the strategy also needs to take account of present realities and future trends. The context in which strategy is developed and implemented will determine its success.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

I am honored to be named chairman of Duke Energy's board and privileged to lead our company forward for our customers, employees, and shareholders.

A nongrowing company can be tremendously prosperous and deliver the vast majority of that prosperity to its shareholders. It just might not come in the form of a rising share price, which is the only metric most shareholders understand. That's why shareholders need to be trained to value other metrics or be replaced by people who do.

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.