Vicente Fox

I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.

Mexican Statesman

Freeman Dyson

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

American Physicist

Joel Salatin

We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

American Author

Jack Dangermond

One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

American Businessman

David Packard

A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.

Richard Branson

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

British Businessman

John Gokongwei

I want to make sure our company is in good hands: that it will be good for the country, for the stockholders.

Chinese Businessman

T. Boone Pickens

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.

Jerry Yang

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

Kenneth Langone

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

Stockholders have rights to company information and may influence decisions.

Ownership Rights

As part-owners, stockholders might get dividends when the company profits.

Profit Sharing

Stockholders can vote on major company decisions, usually one vote per share.

Voting Power

 so the Dutch invent a little something called modern capitalism they create a private company the Dutch East India Company and it is a stockholder funded corporation and the beauty of this was that it spread the risk all sorts of people would buy stock so it wasn't just something that the

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 you really feel like you're being lifted up by a magic carpet, without any vibration whatsoever. The sensation is unbelievable. And it's been a great motivator. I only get to fly this vehicle occasionally, and only when I can persuade my stockholders