Best 108 quotes in «ceo quotes» category

Win friends, multiply acquaintances, lose enemies.

True leaders pursue knowledge, not recognition; understanding, not titles; wisdom, not power; purpose, not riches; excellence, not success; opportunities, not obstacles; character, not fame; diligence, not entertainment; happiness, not money; dignity, not position; a career, not a job; influence, not popularity; performance, not acclaim; and pursue dreams, not tradition. True leaders are givers, not takers; builders, not destroyers; doers, not talkers; encouragers, not flatterers; lovers, not haters; warriors, not worriers; forgivers, not shamers; performers, not complainers; givers, not takers; achievers, not quitters; doers, not doubters; winners, not losers; performers, not manipulators; and are masters, not amatuers.

Understand your purpose and the belief-energy. Belief energy is the core of leadership and success. Design your belief energy for higher purpose and values. Belief energy can inspire and motivate you and others. Articulate, communicate and radiate your positive belief energy.

Win friends, lose enemies.

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

You are only as valuable as the value you add to others.

You can lead people where they have never gone if you get there in your mind first.

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company.

When a chief executive says, 'people are our most important asset' he (almost always 'he' since by 2008, only 12 of the Fortune 500 companies had CEOs who were women)is really speaking of a small percentage of the firm’s employees. Everyone else is merely labor cost.

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.

CEOs will struggle to keep themselves and their companies current, relevant, and ahead of the curve.

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

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

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

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

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

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

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.

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

I hated being a public company CEO.

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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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