#investor

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#bribery #capital #cared #company #corporate

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.' ↗

— James Chanos

#australia #china #clearly #clients #complacency

So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we've seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#early #emerging #get #growth #happened

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow. ↗

— Andy Grove

#companies #desires #everyone #expect #genes

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. ↗

— Kevin Harrington

#entrepreneur #investor #more #nothing #off

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#being #capital #companies #concentrated #corporations

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#being #believe #big #ceo #having

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#analysis #available #data #example #explosion

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#comes #doing #down #flow #future

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#creation #downgrade #economy #face #further