1.
Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!
Tony Gaskins
Assess the individuals in your sphere; then advance, downgrade, or sever. You're the head honcho of your destiny!
2.
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
Michael Porter
3.
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
Bernie Sanders
4.
When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'.
Sourav Ganguly
5.
You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs.
Michael Ellsberg
6.
As the CEO running my life, running Meghan Trainor, I have to say 'no' to things all the time, and it's been very uncomfortable and very difficult. I've said 'no' and it's actually worked - even when I never thought it would work.
Meghan Trainor
7.
Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.
Peter Thiel
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CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman
9.
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
Carlos Ghosn
10.
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
John G. Stumpf
11.
Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.
David Letterman
12.
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn
13.
Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.
Steve Jobs
14.
We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.
Warren Buffett
15.
If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.
Daymond John
16.
When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.
Corey Haim
17.
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina
18.
The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.
Anne M. Mulcahy
19.
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
Andrea Jung
20.
I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.
Howard Schultz
21.
If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even
Gwyn Morgan
22.
A company does better the less it pays the CEO.
Peter Thiel
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If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.
Sherwin Wine
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It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.
Warren Buffett
26.
I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.
Tim Cook
27.
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.
Warren Buffett
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Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company.
Jonah Hill
30.
In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.
Clayton Christensen
31.
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.
Mark McKinnon
32.
Asset management CEOs globally are looking at their business models. They're looking at costs, they're looking at making their businesses more efficient, because they're seeing revenues under pressure all over the world.
Martin Gilbert
33.
For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!
Angela Ahrendts
34.
My agility is the CEO of the United Global Agility Corporation
Steve Nash
35.
It is all of our jobs to make sure that women's rights are human rights, and that they do have a place at the table, and we all push toward equality. The leadership numbers for women in business really haven't changed since I began as CEO. There are only 21 female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies, there is only 17 to 19 percent of female representatives in Congress, there are only eight female governors.
Julie Smolyansky
36.
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.
Mark Pincus
37.
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
Paul Allen
40.
Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has apparently just slipped across the border into Pakistan.
David Letterman
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I have worked with leaders for 17 years. But I'm also a leader myself, and I can honestly say I feel deeply the privilege and responsibility that come with being a CEO. It is incumbent upon us to become all we can be, not only for ourselves, but for our companies.
Suzanne Bates
43.
Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?
Angela Braly
44.
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
Mark Pincus
45.
Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.
Bing Gordon
46.
I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.
Scott Pruett
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You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.
Sam Altman
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There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
Fred Wilson
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My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.
John Fairclough
50.
When I started working, women were working at 59 cents to the dollar. We got a raise, but it's still unfair. We're still 16 percent of Congress, even though we're 51 percent of the population. We're a low percentage of our CEOs. We're a low percentage of boards and being part of boards.
Carolyn Maloney