“Shareholders are stupid and impertinent — stupid because they give their money to somebody else without any effective control over what this person is doing with it, and impertinent because they ask for a dividend as a reward for their stupidity.” “股东既愚蠢又无礼,说他们愚蠢是因为他们把自己的钱交给了其他人,却无法有效控制这个人怎么用这笔钱,说他们无礼是因为他们要求获得股息来回报自己的愚蠢。” So said the banker Carl Fürstenberg, who ran the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft in the late 19th and early 20th century. His disdainful attitude to shareholders appears to live on today with many high-tech entrepreneurs, including the founders of Snap, the Californian company that runs the popular mobile messaging app Snapchat. 这是银行家卡尔?弗斯滕伯格(Carl Fürstenberg)说过的话,他曾在19世纪末和20世纪初执掌Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft。他对股东的鄙视态度似乎传承给了当今的很多高科技企业家,包括加州公司Snap创始人,该公司管理着颇受欢迎的移动消息应用Snapchat。 |