“Shareholder value is the by-product and an external metric.”

“What motivates managers: if you say. 'Your job is to maximize shareholder value,' you will not get an excited response. If you say to journalists, 'Your job is to get the truth,' it will excite people.

Shareholder value is the by-product and an external metric.

All the world’s greatest companies are full of people that are obsessive about sticky yellow stuff that you can stick on the wall and that is right.