Best 108 quotes in «ceo quotes» category

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

I hated being a public company CEO.

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

I love the fact that I'm in New York, because I'm away from all of that. It's very unusual for any of my counterparts here in New York to talk about domestic issues. I enjoy not having to be close to those things in DC. But what I can tell you is the president Donald Trump is the CEO of the country. He can hire and fire whoever he wants. That's his right. Whether you agree with it or not, it's the truth.

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

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.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

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.

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

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

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

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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