Quotes About Shareholders

most mergers—some estimates are 70 percent or more—fail to deliver their intended benefits and destroy economic value in the process. A recent analysis of 93 studies covering more than 200,000 mergers published in peer-reviewed journals showed that, on average, the negative effects of a merger on shareholder value become evident less than a month after a merger is announced and persist thereafter.2

A key ambiguity about large defence contractors: they are pillars of the free market economy whose shareholders are supposed to provide oversight, while receiving extensive state support which insulates them from market vagaries and meaningful oversight.

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

The days of CEOs getting rich while shareholders lose has got to end. Management must be accountable.

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

First thing we're going to do with the benefits of tax reform is we're going to invest in innovation. We're going to invest in capital, new product lines. It's going to create more manufacturing jobs and our shareholders are going to benefit, too. We're going to improve dividends, share repurchase.

Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As a result, many professional investors think the government would repay the debt that Fannie Mae had issued if the company could not, although Fannie Mae explicitly says that its bonds do not carry a federal guarantee.

China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders. No contest.

China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders.

Employees make their business owner or the shareholders rich, not themselves.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

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.

As we shall see, GDP is a poor indicator of wellbeing, but it is limited even as a measure of income. It includes income generated in the United States that belongs to foreigners; it includes incomes in the form of undistributed corporate profits (which ultimately belong to shareholders) as well as surpluses run by federal, state, and local government.

What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.

Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.

With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.

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.

I can hope that the economy gets better, or I can seek a more proactive approach to protect our employees, reward our shareholders and better service artists and fans.

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.

As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive, and the rate of disruptive technological innovation ever faster, the value to shareholders of attracting the best possible CEO increases correspondingly.

Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.