In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance. Votes: 7
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options. Votes: 7
A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives. Votes: 7
If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us. Votes: 7
It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging. Votes: 6
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes Votes: 6
As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm. Votes: 6
Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands. Votes: 6
One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub. Votes: 6
Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding. Votes: 6
We believe the super stock option will become a reality before the end of 2000, ... It's a good idea whose time has come. Votes: 4
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes. Votes: 3
One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub. Votes: 3
When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options. Votes: 3
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options. Votes: 3
When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from the others was that they were not in it for the stock options, but for a mission - to deliver something that was helpful... Every entrepreneurial journey, it turns out, is like this. Votes: 3
COPE Create Options Pending Emergence Votes: 3 Kamil Ali
Wen das Wort nicht schlägt, den schlägt auch der Stock nicht. Votes: 3 Erziehung
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. Votes: 4 Irving Fisher