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I used to do a lot of the day trading and the stocks. I used to have the Ameritrade and trade options.

The best technology transfer program is that of MIT. The reason is that they do not take any money for licensing. Instead they take stock. Then they make professors available to the company

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.

Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.

Citadel's Capital Market division plays an important role in our nation's financial markets. Our broker-dealer is the largest market maker in options in the United States, executing approximately 30 percent of all equity option trades daily.

So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

Finance industry executives earn an annual income, including benefits, grants and bonuses, that can reach over eight million shekels a year.

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

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.

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

Black-Scholes is a know-nothing system. If you know nothing about value - only price - then Black-Scholes is a pretty good guess at what a 90-day option might be worth. But the minute you get into longer periods of time, it's crazy to get into Black-Scholes. For example, at Costco we issued stock options with strike prices of $30 and $60, and Black-Scholes valued the $60 ones higher. This is insane.

We believe the super stock option will become a reality before the end of 2000, ... It's a good idea whose time has come.

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees.

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

I first learned of the value of employee stock ownership plans while representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, home of employee-owned Acadian Ambulance.

Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that their five highest-paid executives receive.

The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.

Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.

I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn't work.

When you get paid in restricted stock, it’s like being handed a scratch-off ticket that takes three to five years to scratch. These stock-based bonuses can be a double-edged sword where you don’t know whether to rejoice or cry until years later.

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.