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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“Shaping the company's future requires a focus on value creation for all stakeholders, not just shareholders.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
tags: board-of-directors, business, corporate-governance, hendrith, quotes, shareholders, stakeholders
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“We do not claim to be more unselfish, more generous or more philanthropic than other people. But we think we started on sound and straightforward business principles, considering the interests of the shareholders our own, and the health and welfare of the employees, the sure foundation of our success.”
― Jamsetji Tata
tags: business, employees, foundation, shareholders, success, welfare
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Yanis Varoufakis
“Liberalism’s fatal hypocrisy […] was to rejoice in the virtuous Jills and Jacks, the neighborhood butchers, bakers and brewers, so as to defend the vile East India Companies, the Facebooks, the Amazons, which know no neighbors, have no partners, respect no moral sentiments [the other book by Adam Smith] and stop at nothing to destroy their competitors.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
tags: adam-smith, capitalism, capitalist-property-rights, corporations, joint-stock, liberalism, shareholders
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Gary Shteyngart
“We are a nation of shareholders," he had said more than once to Seema, trying to articulate his brand of no-nonsense but compassionate capitalism.... Several times during his Greyhound trip, Barry had paused to consider that, although he loved his fellow passengers deeply, he could not trust them at the voting booth because they were not shareholders. They did not understand the thrill and the pain and the obligation of owning a part of their country.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
tags: capitalism, ownership, shareholders, stock-market, value, voting
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Gary Shteyngart
“Jeff Park paused, as if to let that figure register, but Barry had heard it all before. Prices went up. Shareholders profited. What part of "capitalism" didn't Jeff Park understand?”
― Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
tags: capitalism, inflation, profit, rising-prices, shareholders, stock-market, stocks
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Tom C.W. Lin
“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.”
― Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
tags: capitalist, corporations, profit, reagan, reaganism, shareholder-value, shareholders, stakeholders
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Tom C.W. Lin
“Corporate social responsibility alone seemed too passive, too insular, and too self-serving. In a world that seemed to be literally on fire from climate change and social unrest, corporate social responsibility appeared to many as a privileged exercise in self-improvement, however sincere or not. Corporate self-improvement was not enough for many engaged consumers and citizens; active corporate social improvement through activism was desired and called for.”
― Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
tags: business, corporate-social-responsibility, corporations, profits, shareholders, stakeholders
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Tom C.W. Lin
“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.”
― Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
tags: corporate, corporate-social-responsibility, corporations, profits, shareholder-value, shareholders, stakeholders
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