Best 108 quotes in «ceo quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.

Is it really necessary to reward the CEO with several million dollars? Why isn’t it logical or common sense to pay the minimum-wage employee another quarter, give a quarterly fifty-dollar bonus, or even provide a two-hundred-dollar gas gift card?

It’s through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

More often than not, a C.E.O is merely a puppet whose strings are pulled by a board of directors.

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

Once you open your home to nursing, you essentially become the employer of a small staff, even if you aren’t signing the paychecks. As in any workplace, the staff needs to know the rules and expectations, and it is your job to set them and communicate them well. This is your new job; you’ve been promoted to Home Care CEO.

Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

Sir Richard Branson (CEO and Founder of Virgin Company) inspires me to build my best...and then continue building. An entrepreneurial mindset can always benefit from a daily dose of what I buzz 'Branson-spiration'...

The more value you add to others the more value you add to yourself.

The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)

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.

The greatest leaders are those who help others through their greatest struggles.

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.

Win friends, 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.

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.

Pain has an odd way of expressing itself in the acts of business. No matter how many setbacks a leader might experience, there always seems to be a new opaque watermark of endurance testing, invisibly triggered for erratic combustion in each compounding decision. Every CEO in the world knows this, yet few have the good sense to walk away from the table when their cards are hot. Why win in Act Two when a comeback in Act Three gives you a longer biography? Ego is not so much about immortality as it is about demonstrating stately resistance to nightmarish attacks in public forums. Any good smack to the head is a continuity wake up call, or at least another invitation to be interviewed by Charlie Rose.

Win friends, multiply acquaintances, lose enemies.

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

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

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.

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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