29 Quotes by Nell Minow

This report brings to light the role mutual funds play in enabling excessive compensation and helps investors determine which ones are committed to shareholder value and merit their business. The time is now for mutual funds to use their voting power in the interest of shareholders to tie executive pay to actual job performance.

There is really no justification to pay for any living or traveling expenses at that level, particularly now that he is in retirement.

You cannot be on the board of directors and also be doing investment banking work for the company. I don't care if he steps out of the room or not. You cannot be the umpire and the pitcher in the same game.

You'd think they'd be bending over backwards to make sure that anybody they brought in at this point was squeaky clean.

And we know what a risk factor that is. It produces the kinds of problems that we are seeing at AIG: failures of integrity and financial reporting.

You're supposed to tell the truth and be open and transparent and candid about your prospects -- not obfuscate.

This could go any number of ways ? it could be weeks before this is over.

They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed.

It's a headache. It's pure profit, and maybe that's why nobody wants to think about it.