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
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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
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I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
John G. Stumpf
10.
Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.
David Letterman
11.
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
Carlos Ghosn
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We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.
Warren Buffett
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn
14.
Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.
Steve Jobs
15.
When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.
Corey Haim
16.
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina
17.
The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.
Anne M. Mulcahy
18.
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
Andrea Jung
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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
20.
If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.
Daymond John
21.
If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.
Sherwin Wine
22.
A company does better the less it pays the CEO.
Peter Thiel
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It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.
Warren Buffett
25.
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
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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
28.
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
Paul Allen
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I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.
Mark Pincus
30.
Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has apparently just slipped across the border into Pakistan.
David Letterman
33.
Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?
Angela Braly
34.
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
36.
Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.
Bing Gordon
37.
I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.
Scott Pruett
38.
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
Mark Pincus
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You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.
Sam Altman
40.
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
Fred Wilson
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I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.
Jack Levin
42.
My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.
John Fairclough
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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
44.
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.
John C. Bogle
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Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.
Bing Gordon
46.
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.
James O'Toole
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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.
Bernie Sanders
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Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.
Sandy Carter
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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.
Hillary Clinton