Quotes About Shareholders

By contrast, in a member-managed LLC, the members are the shareholders, directors, and officers all at once.

When shareholders receive distributions from a corporation the transaction is taxed.

We are a nation of shareholders, he had said more than once to Seema, trying to articulate his brand of no-nonsense but compassionate capitalism.... Several times during his Greyhound trip, Barry had paused to consider that, although he loved his fellow passengers deeply, he could not trust them at the voting booth because they were not shareholders. They did not understand the thrill and the pain and the obligation of owning a part of their country.

Jeff Park paused, as if to let that figure register, but Barry had heard it all before. Prices went up. Shareholders profited. What part of capitalism didn't Jeff Park understand?

A number of former Wells Fargo employees have described their work environment characterized by intense pressure to meet aggressive and unrealistic sales goals. In a 2010 letter to shareholders, Mr. Stumpf wrote that Wells Fargo's goal was eight products per customer because eight rhymed with great.

However, there is a policy that mimics the low cost nature of PPLI that is now available to non-accredited investors with as little as a few thousand to invest. Founded in 1918 by visionary Andrew Carnegie to serve teachers, TIAA-CREF "functions without profit to the corporation or its shareholders.

Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.

If you punish the banks, all you are doing is reducing the banks' capital, which you want to increase, and punishing shareholders, who have done nothing wrong.

When you face the shareholders, then you can feel the heat is on you. For 20 years I got to answer to my shareholders. It's not easy.

Patagonia, a large apparel manufacturer based in Ventura, California, has organized itself as a 'B-corporation.' That's a for-profit company whose articles of incorporation require it to take into account the interests of workers, the community, and the environment, as well as shareholders.

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

As we emphasized at the time, we took those actions not out of any consideration for their shareholders,

We were also careful not to advise Lewis on the disclosures to his shareholders about Merrill's losses,

The mistake increased Bear's shareholders' bargaining power.

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

Still, I couldn't help but connect the two events and consider the human costs of the world's dependence on fossil fuels: the number of people who each day were forced to risk lungs, limbs, and sometimes their lives to fill our gas tanks and keep the lights on—and generate otherworldly profits for distant executives and shareholders. I

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

It is about time companies shifted from the simple strategies to earn a mere operation license towards earning a leadership license, that is, they should serve the needs of both their shareholders and stakeholders by making profits while also being a positive driver in society".

WrestleMania's the accumulation of a lot of things. All the shareholders come in for all the meetings with the suits and everything.

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

It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital.

As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders.

Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.

Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.