Ivan Glasenberg Quotes

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.

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

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

Excessive pandering to stockholders is as bad as any other form of pandering

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

The days of CEOs getting rich while shareholders lose has got to end. Management must be accountable.

We invited HP executives to participate in the management and in the board. HCL had this concept of corporate officers since inception in 1999. We had a remuneration committee. Now everyone is talking about nomination and remuneration committee. We had this from 1999.

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

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

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.

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

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.

Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

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

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

Sitting on a corporate board is a hobby for me.

Some shareholders believe it is all about price and a few people's pockets.

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.

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

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.'

When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

As the head of the public company, you can't say you can't sell, because then you're telling your shareholders that your own personal feelings about your assets are more important than their money. And they won't invest with you if you do that.

Excessive pay and rewards for failure are bad for shareholders, the economy and society.