Shareholder Value Quotes

• On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

  Jack Welch

  Ideas, World, Faces

  "GMO Capital's James Montier Destroys The Idea That Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Good" by Myles Udland, www.businessinsider.com. December 2, 2014.

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• Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

  Jack Welch

  Strategy, Results, Employee

  "Simple sermon on ethics won't do". www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.

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• 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

  Business, Responsibility, Games

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

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• Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Winning, Giving

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to financialized businesses that do not invest in the areas that will lead to future growth or the invention of useful new products.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Running, Ideas, Growth

  Source: www.salon.com

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• 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

  Taken, Done, Action

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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

  Dov Seidman

  Morning, Order, Bed

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• 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

  Business, Thinking, People

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• Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Fossils, Cost

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods.

  Andrea Jung

  Responsibility, Careers, People

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• 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

  Work Out, Majority, Mergers

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• I think the biggest single issue is income inequity and what this is doing to the good old "American dream." This and corporatism - this delusional idea that "shareholder value" outweighs everything else.

  George Saunders

  Dream, Thinking, Ideas

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• 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

  Giving, Community, Political

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• I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Jobs, Ideas

  "Lee Iacocca, The !dea Man". Interview with David E. Davis, Jr., www.motortrend.com. October 5, 2005.

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