24 Quotes by Patrick McGurn

Very few educational institutions have filed corporate governance or social responsibility proxy proposals at publicly traded companies in recent years. The reason for this is not clearalthough the general decline in campus protest efforts is sometimes cited as the cause.

When Warren is gone, the market will start demanding coverage. People will want a lot deeper level of analysis.

So many stock-option grants were made at the peak of the market that we'll be working our way through these sales for some time.

If they were going to fill it from inside, I would have thought it would be done already. I wouldn't be surprised if they go out and recruit a new director.

If it starts to happen, then people will start talking about why there wasn't a collar.

He was selling, unfortunately, both software and snake oil.

Just within the last six months, these policies have spread pretty quickly. It's almost a proxy now for boardroom accountability.

I think it's a morale killer when you see it disclosed at some of these companies.

The '90s was the slippery slope from managing expectations to managing earnings to outright fraud.