No large concentrated stockholding exists which maintains close relationship with the management or is capable of challenging it, so that the board of directors may regularly expect a majority... to follow their lead. Thus they need not consult with anyone when making up their slate of directors... They select their own successors.
p. 73; As cited in: Leslie A White, Robert Carniero, Benjamin Urish (2008) Modern Capitalist Culture. p. 387. - Power Without Property, 1959