Nell Minow Quotations

It's, generally speaking, the result of some pressure from shareholders. We're seeing more and more of that, particularly at companies that have not kept faith with shareholders. It's very performance driven.

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

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?

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.

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

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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.

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

I'm not saying that everyone has to agree with our grades, but the burden of proof should be on (the funds) to explain what they see in these companies that we don't.

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