Nathan Kirsh Quotes

I am the largest shareholder in SoftBank; I share the same interest as the other shareholders.

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.

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.

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

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

I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

I think every company has its own unique approach to creating shareholder value.

We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.

I'm the non-executive chairman of nine or so major companies, and on the nine companies, it's a little trying because you jump from one industry to another, as the case might be. But one had the reasonable knowledge of those nine activities, and it's been an exciting job.

Taxing financial markets, promoting research and development, and mobilising investments: that means learning our lessons from the financial market crisis and changing our focus.

The role of a board of directors is to be a sounding board for the vision of the company - to hold executives accountable in executing that vision and to ensure a management succession plan is in place.

Our responsibility is to maximise shareholder value, and if that means we can make short-term investment where we can maximise short-term value, we can do that.

It is very clear for us; we will do whatever is in the best interest of Shriram shareholders.

The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

Invest in what you know.

With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them. This allows investors to diversify their financial holdings. It also allows them to capture profits on their investments, without having to get involved in the dirty, troublesome business of actually running a company.

Investing is simple, but not easy.