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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

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

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

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.

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

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.

For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!

My agility is the CEO of the United Global Agility Corporation

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.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.