Best Shareholder Value Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In an illuminating comment on the financialisation of business, Jack Welch — now long retired from General Electric — would in 2009 proclaim shareholder value 'the dumbest idea in the world.”

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Book:Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance

Source: Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance

“Shareholders are demanding that Twitter find better ways of monetizing its users Tweets.”

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Book:Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

Source: Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

“But there may never be enough to satisfy shareholders who expect to win back one hundred times their initial twenty billion dollar bet.”

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Book:Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

Source: Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

“The profit-first, profit-only view of business under the Reagan Revolution raised new concerns about the social obligations of corporations beyond shareholders to constituencies like employees, creditors, customers, and local communities. This was motivated in part by the fact that despite significant stock market increases and income growth for the wealthy, many working-class Americans were left behind in the economic growth.”

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Book:The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

“Contentious social issues like racial justice, income inequality, gun violence, immigration reform, gender equality, and climate change have all become part of many corporate agendas. Silence and indifference are becoming less the norm. The days of simply ignoring social issues or writing a check are gone. Corporations are now frequently expected to engage in social issues through public statements, sponsorships, partnerships, and policies supporting a position or a cause. Being a socially responsible corporation now also means being a socially active corporation.”

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Book:The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

“Wall Street's contradictory approach to shareholder value and bull markets sets the stage for a financial crisis.”

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Book:Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

Source: Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

“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.”

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Author:Juan Somavia

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Barry Ritholtz

“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.”

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Author:Lee Iacocca

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

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Author:Andrea Jung

“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.”

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Author:George Saunders

“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.”

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Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“Shareholder value gets lost when things are done illegally, when corporate governance is not adhered to, when cohesive action is not taken.”

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Author:Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

“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.”

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Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

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

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Author:Jack Welch

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

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Author:Jack Welch

“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.”

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Author:Jeff Bezos

“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.”

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Author:Sylvia Earle

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