Tzipi Livni Quotes

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

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

I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.

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

When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

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

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

Buying securities is usually easier than selling securities.

Lots of entrepreneurs don't want to be hassled by a board of directors early on. The entrepreneurs want to control the company, don't want to be responsible to a board, or don't want to waste time communicating with board members. This is a classic error of thinking about the early stage board incorrectly.

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.

The biggest challenge is adding the bureaucracy it takes to run the company without becoming fat, lazy, inflexible - bureaucratic.

HCL and Wipro are largely controlled by one family, so a strife with the board is not possible.

You're only the boss if you put up your own money.

To effect meaningful change, you have to look at who's in the boardrooms, who has the financial control of businesses, and who has the greenlighting power.

If there is one thing worse for a manager than having an interfering owner it is uncertainty over the ownership.

The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.

We live in a world of competing sorrows ... to govern is to choose.

It was the same thing as going into a business community and interesting the leading business men by giving them shares.

Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief

The best investments are the easiest ones to approve.

Access to capital is important for all firms, but it's particularly vital for startups and young firms, which often lack a sufficient stream of earnings to increase employment and internally finance capital spending.

I don't know anything about a stock!