Quotes About Shareholder

China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.

I am the largest shareholder in SoftBank; I share the same interest as the other shareholders.

Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder.

Not having sub-governance would be like anyone who owns USD being able to walk into a Google shareholder meeting and voting without owning Google stock just because Google shares happen to be denominated in USD.

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

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.

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

I have not been a believer of point guidance. It really limits your flexibility to do what you want. It leads to behavior that is not supportive of long-term shareholder value.

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who can switch from seller to seller with relative ease. Consumer and shareholder activism is a form of protest that favours the middle classes, an outpouring of the dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie.

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My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.

Generally, there is the fallacy that dividends are free money, by which I mean that many investors strictly buy dividend stocks to get the dividend income or bonus, says Dejan Ilijevski, investment advisor and president at Sabela Capital Markets in Munster, Indiana. Rather a dividend is simply a transfer of wealth from the company's books to the shareholder.

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.

Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands.

2018, the stock market posted its worst annual performance since the financial crisis. The median shareholder return for the largest five hundred corporations was a negative 5.8 percent. But their top executives got raises of 5 percent or more, with the typical CEO pay reaching a record $12.4 million, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.

A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

its dividend was halved.

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

Its low fares made flying an attractive alternative for price-sensitive travelers accustomed to driving or taking a bus. In the early years, a shareholder asked CEO Herb Kelleher if Southwest couldn't raise its prices by just a few dollars since its $15 price on the Dallas–San Antonio route was so much lower than Braniff's $62 fare. Kelleher said no, our real competition is ground transportation, not other airlines.

In 1886, Standard Oil set up the Natural Gas Trust, with Rockefeller as its largest shareholder.

Though he owned 27.4 percent of Standard Oil stock—three times the amount held by Flagler, the next largest shareholder