Isabelle Kocher Quotes

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

My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

HCL is a corporation. It is for profits. A corporation stands for its shareholders, its profits, its employees, its discoveries, and its customers.

There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.

Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder.

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

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.

I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.

Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

The business end of business has never interested me.

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?

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

General Motors is not in the business of making cars. It is in the business of making money.

As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders.