Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

Well-managed companies with independent boards have nothing to fear from activist shareholders.

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

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

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.

Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands.

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

One way to promote shareholder engagement and activism is through greater accountability and transparency.

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on behalf of all shareholders rather just the most vocal.

What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

We had the controlling shares but we weren’t in control.

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.

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.

You can't put your name, recognition, your money in a company without having share in the control.

Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.

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

If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to cast one's vote at the ballot box, but to do so at the supermarket or at a shareholders' meeting. When provoked, corporations respond.

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

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