Stephen Fincher Quotes

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

The time is coming when all businesses will have to be done with glass pockets.

My obligation is to disclose companies in which I'm an officer, a director, or an investor.

It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.

The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.

I don't think anybody has indicated that I did anything but do my job at Fannie Mae.

I hope we’re on the road to more truth-telling to investors.

From now on, the government has to make its accounts public on a quarterly basis.

It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from Government the privilege of doing business under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.

I was, as president and chairman of the board, required by law to verify the veracity of the financial figures, the assets under management, the number of outstanding shares, et cetera.

The American public is rightfully asking, 'Hey, all those funds are coming out of my pocket, so I want to know where they're going.'

I see it as very important that taxpayers have access to all financial transactions.

Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.

For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.

The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

Only the corporation that shirks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be over-sensitive.

I am the only public servant and the only Mexican President ever who has made his finances public from before, during, and after public service.

The future will find one of its great problems is deciding how big a business enterprise must become before the public is entitled to know the full details of its management.