Early in my career, I worked for a company that had one of its five core values as "Maximize shareholder value" and these would get displayed all around the com

Early in my career, I worked for a company that had one of its five core values as "Maximize shareholder value" and these would get displayed all around the company (as if they were supposed to inspire us). I thought (1) 'I can't believe anyone is actually inspired by that' and (2) 'Well, at least they're honest about it'.