Brian Gibson Quotes
[Keeping CEOs from making dumb decisions has won fans among Canada's biggest money managers.] In the majority of cases, you would have been better off as a shareholder if the companies had paid out extra money to you, rather than reinvested it. Most management teams are not good at capital allocation, ... Look at BCE [Inc.]. Instead of buying all those businesses they then had to write off, it would have been better just to pay out the money. 
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I don't come in with the desire to change anything particular or with a special vision to go anywhere different from where we've been. I want to build on the excellence on what's been there. I'm looking forward to building on what we've had.
- Brian Gibson
[Keeping CEOs from making dumb decisions has won fans among Canada's biggest money managers.] In the majority of cases, you would have been better off as a shareholder if the companies had paid out extra money to you, rather than reinvested it. Most management teams are not good at capital allocation, ... Look at BCE [Inc.]. Instead of buying all those businesses they then had to write off, it would have been better just to pay out the money.
- Brian Gibson