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If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with.

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

We want to be a secure investment, a little bit like a bond.

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.