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The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients.

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.