Investor Trust Quotes

... the loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that more damage has been done to stock values and to the future of equities from inside Wall Street than from outside Wall Street.

I believe that the behavior of too many of our corporations investment bankers and fund managers has jeopardized some of the trust that investors have had. It's not the economic engine that we need to focus on, but the need to make sure that our investors receive their fair share of the returns that that great economic system produces.

To a large extent, equity investors put their hard-earned capital into the hands of management and count on it being employed skilfully and honestly. When that doesn't happen, losses typically follow.

Foreign and domestic investors will come only when they know that you have enough power.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.

We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them.

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

We got to know a lot of investors and know what they like and don't like. Through many co-investments opportunities, we have built trust among these investors. So when it came to investing in Xiaomi, things were a lot easier.

We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.

If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged.

In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

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

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

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

If I ever took a business public, I wouldn't want to take the shares off the table. I don't want people thinking I'm doing it just to make money and then going to run for the hills. I think that's a very important distinction.

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

If I had taken money from, say, venture capital, they would have wanted a certain return in a certain time period. McDonald's, on the other hand, seemed very interested in my passion about creating this brand. I trusted them, and they did not really interfere with the brand.

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.