A Quote by Ben Horowitz

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

Ben Horowitz

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Ben Horowitz
English - Businessman
Born: June 13, 1966

We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Joe Jamail

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.

Mark Mobius

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

Kenneth Frazier

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.

Thomas Piketty

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

Ben Horowitz

We actually distribute using AirBnB because they're the vacation management company and they distribute us, which is why AirBnB is also a small shareholder in our company.

Ritesh Agarwal

My work with Combate Americas, in particular, has been incredible because the company keeps growing at an incredible rate.

Alberto Del Rio

Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees.

Elaine Chao

I've got to give my brother a lot of credit because he's always introduced me to a lot of things and those films spiked an interest of, "Wow, this is an incredible world, how do you be a part of that?" That definitely helped me through my school years of doing theater.

Ed Speleers

My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.

Maurice Strong

I stayed at home and loved my own company because I was just petrified of everybody else my own age, which I think a lot of people are.

Jessica Barden

In most public company deals shareholder litigation is completely common.

Michael G. Rubin

Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

Sam Altman

Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper.