Ceo Quotes

Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'.

You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs.

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.

Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

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.

If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

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

I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.

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.

Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has apparently just slipped across the border into Pakistan.

I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

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.

I hated being a public company CEO.

Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.

I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

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.

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.

Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.

The relationship between executive CEO pay, stock performance is tenuous and not easily unscrambled, just one of myriad factors that affect the price of a stock.

The CEO of large multi-nationals like Hillary [Clinton]. They won't going to like me and Wall Street is going to like me even less.

Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.

Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer - who started with the company while in high school has negotiated imaginative contracts with the unions representing Harley's workers, agreeing to keep production in the U.S. in exchange for constantly reducing total labor costs through automating tasks and changing work rules. Because Harley regularly reassigns workers whose tasks have been automated to other parts of the company.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

'What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.'

The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.

Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.