Shareholder Value Quotes:

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

- Jack Welch

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

topic: Ideas, World, Faces, Shareholders, Shareholder Value

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

- Jack Welch

topic: Strategy, Results, Employee, Shareholders, Shareholder Value

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

topic: Business, Responsibility, Games, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility

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

topic: Jobs, Winning, Giving, Dividends, Share Price

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

topic: Running, Ideas, Growth, Future Growth, Shareholder Value

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

source: Source: zeenews.india.com

topic: Taken, Done, Action, Shareholder Value

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

- Dov Seidman

topic: Morning, Order, Bed, Shareholder Value

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

topic: Business, Thinking, People, Shareholder Value

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

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

topic: Ocean, Fossils, Cost, Drilling, Shareholder Value

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

- Andrea Jung

topic: Responsibility, Careers, People, Shareholders, Shareholder Value

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

topic: Work Out, Majority, Mergers, Shareholder Value

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

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

topic: Dream, Thinking, Ideas, Corporatism, Shareholder Value

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

topic: Giving, Community, Political, Stakeholder, Decent Work

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

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

topic: Country, Jobs, Ideas, Chrysler, Shareholder Value