100 Shareholders Quotes
Following is our list of shareholders quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about stockholders.
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Famous Shareholders Quotes
It is supposed to defend the interests of all shareholders. — Bernard Arnault
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business. — Peter Lynch
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. — Jack Welch
Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. — Jack Welch
We are committed to a future where every investor – even individual investors – can have the option to participate in the proxy voting process if they choose. — Larry Fink
Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy. — Walter Reuther
Knowledge, profits, dividends, valuation, conduct of business, resolve — Howard Marks
To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow. — Benjamin Graham
Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter. — Vijay Kedia
In today’s globally interconnected world, a company must create value for and be valued by its full range of stakeholders in order to deliver long-term value for its shareholders. — Larry Fink
The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street. — Bernard Madoff
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. — T. Boone Pickens
Those who want to share the gains, shall also share the losses. — Swedish Proverbs
Value investor, high risk, low prospective returns, high prices — Howard Marks
Your investment belongs to the market and your profits belong to you. — Vijay Kedia
Short Shareholders Quotes
- I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world. — Chris Martin
- Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3. — Jack Ma
- Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder. — Jim Cramer
- If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned. — Jeff Bezos
- I have a responsibility to banks, to shareholders. — Arnon Milchan
- Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders. — Arpad Busson
- A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face. — Eric Reguly
- I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder. — Carl Icahn
- Is management candid with the shareholders? — Warren Buffett
- Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third. — Jack Ma
Shareholder Value Quotes
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game. — Milton Friedman
We need a mutual fund industry with both vision and values; a vision of fiduciary duty and shareholder service, and values rooted in the proven principles of long-term investing and of trusteeship that demands integrity in serving our clients. — John C. Bogle
The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value. — Barry Ritholtz
I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better. — Jeff Bezos
Shareholder value gets lost when things are done illegally, when corporate governance is not adhered to, when cohesive action is not taken. — Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in the year 2005, but our earnings are still not where we want them to be. We intend to grow profitably and to create added value over the long term - for the benefit of our customers, employees and shareholders. — Dieter Zetsche
I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value. — Dov Seidman
What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities. — Juan Somavia
It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods. — Andrea Jung
Scale can create value for shareholders; for consumers, who are beneficiaries of better products, delivered more quickly and at less cost; for the businesses that are our customers; and for the economy as a whole. — Jamie Dimon
Stockholders Quotes
We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green. — Anodea Judith
I don’t control J.C. Penney. I’m a large shareholder. I’m one member of the board...The largest stockholder. — Bill Ackman
When do stockholders get no benefit from retained earnings? One way is when managements pile up cash and liquid assets far beyond any present or prospective needs for the business. — Philip Arthur Fisher
The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks. — Eustace Mullins
To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers. — James Hunter
The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term. — W. Edwards Deming
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. — Richard Branson
A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders. — Henry Ford
So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not. — Milton Friedman
This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities. — Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Share Price Quotes
Instead of accepting Elon's premium to the share price, Twitter's board is planning to dilute the company by giving insiders a sweetheart deal. This is a blatant violation of fiduciary duty and should be illegal. — David O. Sacks
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price. — Peter Lynch
The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices. — Franz Beckenbauer
The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses. — Mark Zandi
Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed. — Dominic Lawson
A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth. — Charlie Munger
A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price. — Benjamin Graham
When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska. — Sarah Palin
Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall. — Mark Zandi
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
People Writing About Shareholders
More Shareholders Quotes
Our conviction at BlackRock is that companies perform better when they are deliberate about their role in society and act in the interests of their employees, customers, communities, and their shareholders. — Larry Fink
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. — Jamie Dimon
Our corporate executives speculate with their shareholders’ assets because they get big personal rewards when they win—and even if they lose, they are often bailed out with public funds by obedient politicians. We privatize profit and socialize risk. — Edward O. Thorp
Legislative reforms in the 1990s and the public/private structure led managements to expand the GSEs' balance sheets to enormous size, underpinned by wafer-thin slivers of capital, driving high shareholder returns and very high compensation for management. — Jerome Powell
I want to be the champion of shareholders...And when I’m concerned about the direction of the business I’m not afraid to air those concerns. — Bill Ackman
Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business. — Yvon Chouinard
Higher capital requirements increase bank costs, and at least some of those costs will be passed along to bank customers and shareholders. — Jerome Powell
I do not see how the manager of a publicly traded company is qualified to require a shareholder to sell his shares. — Bernard Arnault
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. — Dianne Feinstein
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world. — Steve Ballmer
Central banks are currency counterfeiting cartels that loot savers to enrich their shareholders. In other words, central banking is organized crime. As money that cannot be counterfeited, Bitcoin is justice. — Robert Breedlove
Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. — Dianne Feinstein
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. — Lee R. Raymond
Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that could have made for dividend payouts, but it also is money that's uplifting and improving the quality of life of people in the rural areas where we operate and work. We owe them that. — Ratan Tata
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that. — Herb Kelleher
If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works. — Herb Kelleher
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms. — Alan Greenspan
We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief. — Alan Greenspan
When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority. — Peter Lynch
In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing. — Don Tapscott
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. — Simon Mainwaring
I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets. — Bob Iger
We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large. — Akira Mori
The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy. — Jack Ma
The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders. — Peter Lynch
The total amount paid out in dividends is roughly equal to the amount lost in trading and investment advice, so net dividends to shareholders are zero. This is a very peculiar way to run a republic. — Charlie Munger
We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets. — Warren Buffett
The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1. — Bernie Ecclestone
I mean the good thing about Marvel is that they're really good about reading what they call the shareholders - the fans. Because they really are the keepers of what keeps these movies going, you know? — Justin Theroux
Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper. — Charlie Munger
If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns. — Jeff Bezos
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. — Eliot Spitzer
... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success. — Richard Branson
A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed. — Ben Stein
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