#shareholders

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders? ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#because #care #costs #defending #efficiency

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

#business #constituency #corporation #customers #economic

Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company's fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth. This approach has cost shareholders a staggering $40 billion. ↗

— Bruce Wasserstein

#been #billion #company #competitive #cost

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world. ↗

— Chris Martin

#great #great evil #i #i think #modern

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#companies #different #employees #finance #large

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#company #conditions #continue #feel #first

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#corporate #management #obligation #parameters #profit

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#collaborate #customers #distribute #employee #feedback

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

#benefit #build #business #companies #core

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#chinese #companies #couple #efficient #industry