Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey Copy Share Image
An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. — Richard Jefferson Copy Share Image
Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA. — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders. — Ivan Glasenberg Copy Share Image
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
As we all know there have been fabulous women chief executives: Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir. — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful.… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community… — Albert J. Dunlap Copy Share Image
Most chief executives rise to that position by being good operating managers. Few have extensive experience or training with capital allocation. What… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have… — Robert Peston Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring… — James Hunter Copy Share Image
The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets. — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards. — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired. — Duff McDonald Copy Share Image
I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive. — Rebekah Brooks Copy Share Image
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite… — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to… — William Weld Copy Share Image
I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . .… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
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