Ceo Quotes

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that. (Indra Nooyi)
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. View quote
Indra Nooyi
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO. View quote
Michael E. Porter
I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and [Apple CEO Steve] Jobs working together. The thought of this ménage à trois is absolutely hilarious. View quote
Jean-Louis Gassée
The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1. View quote
Bernie Ecclestone
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President. View quote
Barbara Boxer
I don't consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I've benefited from the sacrifice of others, ... So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy. View quote
Tim Cook
But at some point, you know that- you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." View quote
Glenn Beck
Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important. View quote
Jack Welch
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company. View quote
Ben Horowitz
Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg. (Douglas Rushkoff)
You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that. View quote
Andrea Jung
Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first. View quote
Andrea Jung
There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? View quote
Andrea Jung
A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO. View quote
Chanda Kochhar
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you. View quote
Christie Hefner
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance. View quote
Denise Morrison
There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. View quote
Eric Liu
On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have. View quote
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors. (Gary Hamel)
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague. View quote
John G. Stumpf
The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward. View quote
John Katzman
Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO. View quote
Max McKeown
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October. View quote
Peter Bart