As Lynn Stout of Cornell Law School has put it, they are “human beings with differing investment time frames, different interests ex ante and ex post, different degrees of diversification, and different attitudes toward sacrificing personal wealth to follow ethical rules and avoid harming others.” They also differ in their attitudes toward risk.
其次，并非所有的股东都是一样的。正如康奈尔商学院的史陶特（Lynn Stout）所指出的，他们是“时间框架不同、先验和后验利益不同、多样化程度不同、对为了追随伦理规则和避免伤害他人牺牲个人财富的态度也不同的人类”。他们对待风险的态度也不一样。