No way,said its board of directors. So the partners began a company of their own in San Francisco.

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It may surprise the company directors how much we made or how little we made according to the accountants.

公司管理层们可能会对会计结果表示惊讶,不管他们赚的是多是少

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The typical example of dilution is: the board of directors has hired a CEO for the company and they want to motivate the CEO.

摊薄的典型例子是,董事会为公司雇用了一位首席执行官,他们想激励这位首席执行官

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What they're saying is that of course lots of things that a board of directors decides to do are not irrelevant; it's highly relevant to the future of the company.

但他们承认,董事会的很多决定,都与股利毫无关系,而与公司的未来紧密联系

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Well, the company--the board of directors-- decides if and when to pay dividends to the shareholders and then the law of the state would say that they must treat them all equally.

公司,董事会,会决定何时向股东支付股利,州法规定,股东利益均等

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We've talked about a book written by Berle and Means who said that shareholders are so dispersed that they have really no control over a company and boards of directors are self-perpetuating.

我们曾提到过一本,写的书，Berle，and，Means,书中作者提到股东们过于分散,以至于他们对公司失去了控制权,但董事会却要长久地自我续存下去。

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