29 Quotes by Nell Minow

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    Usually, $100,000 invested in the company is enough to make them pay attention.

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    Yes, it's meaningful money, ... But it's still a fraction of what was lost.

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    Right now, executive pay is like a scavenger hunt. You have to get little pieces of data here and little pieces of data there.

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    I was surprised. If they were just neglectful they would do a better job than this. It's beyond neglectful. It's a conflict of interest problem.

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    He is not the chairman of a public corporation. He doesn't create shareholder value. He is essentially a regulator, and he is running an unregulated monopoly in a way.

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    He runs off the cliff and then realizes there's nothing underneath him.

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    I think the change is significant -- and troubling. For one thing, it is in addition to the other termination payments, which the first one was not. And it is larger, for no apparent reason. Are they expecting a change of control?

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    We had a period in which companies went public entirely too quickly. Some of them never should have.

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