The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what…

“The best CEOs I know all look for disruptions, interruptions, little risks, and existential risks and spend time mitigating them periodically. It’s not sexy…

— Sebastian Marshall

The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter…

— James C. Collins

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

— Robert S. Kaplan

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter…

— Michael Porter

We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide…

— Michael Corbat

When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help…

— Barack Obama

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good…

— Michael Porter

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran…

— Cynthia P. Schneider

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…

— Michael Ramsey

CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.

— Carl Icahn

There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so…

— Nicholas Kristof

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…

— Hillary Clinton

“We find that firms with award-winning CEOs subsequently underperform, in terms both of stock and of operating performance. At the same time, CEO compensation…

— Daniel Kahneman

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs…

— Frank Luntz

“It seems some CEOs who pay extremely large acquisition premiums … come to believe their own press.”

— Chip Heath