Best 108 quotes in «ceo quotes» category

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

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

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

Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 2008 Canadian CEO of the year, Frank DAngelo.

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

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

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.

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

Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

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

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

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.

We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything.

Very rarely are you going to see the large shareholder or CEO of a corporation march into a newsroom and say, "Cover this story, don't cover that." It's a much more subtle process. The professional code adapts, but what we try to see, is how commercial and corporate pressure shape both the professional code and the sorts of things that are considered legitimate journalism and illegitimate journalism.

We have to fundamentally rethink our trade policy and make it work not for the CEOs of large corporations, but for working people. So, if Trump wants to develop a rational trade policy which demands corporations start investing in this country, rather than China, that's something that we can work on.

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

What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

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

What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal.

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.

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

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

50,000 workers at the Yue Yen Nike Factory in China would have to work for nineteen years to earn what Nike spends on advertising in one year. Wal-Mart's annual sales are worth 120 times more than Haiti's entire annual budget; Disney CEO Michael Eisner earns $9,783 an hour while a Haitian worker earns 28 cents an hour; it would take a Haitian worker 16.8 years to earn Eisner's hourly income; the $181 million in stock options Eisner exercised in 1996 is enough to take care of his 19,000 Haitian workers and their families for fourteen years.

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

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

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

A business that is not growing after all, is dying.

A follower who leads is greater than a leader who follows.

A CEO is a board of directors personified.

Instill within yourself the ability to generate passion in whatever you do, as this is the only driving force that will motivate you to achieve. No one else can motivate you or make you successful. Ensure you have self-integrity and honour towards others set in a framework of guiding principles, and little tolerance for those who don’t.

Being thoughtful about the comfort and needs of the people who work in your home is a characteristic of a great Home Care CEO.

Carrying someone else’s weight is only going to weigh down on you and add stress, frustration, and pain. Choose who you work with and play with wisely.

I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of course. That is how I'm viewing my life right now. Once I find that loophole than I've reached my destination to success.

If your leaders want you to talk to them, consider them. If your leaders want you to debate them, regard them. If your leaders want you to oppose them, love them. If your leaders want you to police them, revere them.

I’m just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.

A house you build with your hands, but an empire you build with your heart.

A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.

A team hops on one mind, walks on two, sprints on three, and soars on four.

At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

God is the C.E.O of the universe; love is His vice president, and joy, His secretary.

I did think about a Ph.D. in computer science, but this is a time in industry where theory and practice are coming together in amazing ways. Yes, there's money, but what really interests me is that private-sector innovation happens faster. You can get more done and on a larger scale and have more impact. With all the start-ups out there, I think this is a time like the Renaissance. Not just one person doing great work, but so many feeding off one another. If you lived then, wouldn't you go out and paint?

If you're not moving, you're standing still.