Executive Compensation

“There was three folks last year that were in ranges of 185 to two 85. That deal landed at 1.1 million when we were done with increases in stock, big cash increases. Two deals that were comped at 600 that landed at 1.1 and 1.2. So doubled from that. And these w…”

“If the company's incentives aren't linked to that, so if they're not tied to, you know, cost control, if they're not tied to driving revenues from an organic standpoint, not just from acquisitions if they're not, you know, if they're tied, if they're driven by…”

“My prediction is, and again, I'm often disagreed with on this on comp committees, because I've done some of these where I've tried to make them on tangible targets. What will happen when you do the stock price ones is if the company is doing really well, but t…”

“He says it makes no financial sense to skimp on salary and incentives to save a 100,000 dollars a year. When hiring a second best candidate may cost you millions of dollars in lost profit.”

“The way to get companies to basically to run in a mode where they're sort of continuously trying to get more efficient if that's what you want is to shift compensation instead to the financial metric of return on invested capital.”

“As comp goes up, I do think performance goes up. People are less likely to quit. It levels off faster than we think that they have enough because people don't really work for money. And then I think performance declines. People get risk aversed. If somebody's …”

“And this is more of a political point, but I don't think that executive compensation should be tied to share price. Because the share price is so volatile, and so wild, and it doesn't look like from this data that who the CEO is, is having much of an impact on…”

“I think it's great that outside the U.S., you don't see guys making 30 or forty million dollars while their CFO makes 500,000. You just don't see that. You see a lot more reasonable equity payouts and or salary payouts in those companies, which I like a lot, b…”