Andrew Mason Quotes

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

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

The World Bank is a shareholder-driven organisation, and as in all such organisations, the majority of shareholders would want a manager of their liking at the top.

I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

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

When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.

We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.'

I already have a job and being the CEO of Nvidia is a great privilege. It is once in a life time opportunity.

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

When we look at really good high-performing companies abroad, they are always at the back of an extremely high-performing board, and that is something which is very lacking in this country.

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

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.