24 Quotes by Patrick McGurn

The question is, have you simply allowed your ship to rise along with a rising tide and it's not the value actually provided. Certainly the builders and the energy companies would seem to fit that.

Time Warner is pulling out the heavy guns, there's no doubt they are taking this seriously. This counter-point situation is quite similar to a political campaign, where both sides have a war room. One side is lining out a strategy and the other is responding.

While these payments may seem eye-popping, it seems more closely aligned with the company's performance and is less likely to raise the ire of shareholders than in years past.

There is still a lot of anger out there, but people have taken notice of what the board has already been doing.

We felt the primary problem at this company was with the cash bonus program.

Boards, frankly, are just getting up to speed in many instances on what they've done in the past and are really just starting to exhibit some control over the pay practices. It's going to be a gradual process.

Sovereign has a lot of bridges to build with institutional investors. It's going to take time to repair their image.

This is not a right-left, Republican-Democrat, man-woman, old-young issue. Everybody thinks, with some very limited exceptions, that CEOs are overpaid, and because of that, shareholders aren't getting adequate bang for their buck.

This is particularly the case if a dissident is seeking control of the board or a substantial number of seats - an alternative strategy and plan for creating value at the company is going to be a key element of our evaluation.