Ceo Quotes · Page 7

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

— Larry Ellison

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

— Carly Fiorina

I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.

— Ivan Glasenberg

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

— Jack Welch

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

— Peter Diamandis

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

— Marissa Mayer

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Any CEO would want to know what people say about his product anywhere in the world.

— Rene Angelil

When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So…

— Frans van Houten

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

— Henry Blodget

I worked with the best - Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent - and it gave me an ability to be confident. It…

— Kimora Lee Simmons

I think of a traditional CEO as being divorced from customers. A lot of consumer company CEOs - they're not really interacting…

— Tim Cook

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

— Donald Trump

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class.…

— Gene Simmons

I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm…

— DJ Khaled

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

— Martin Sorrell

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving…

— Noam Chomsky

Boundaries are shifting between work and the rest of life for men and for women at different life stages. Work is becoming…

— Stewart D. Friedman

I'm a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful.…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I'm the CEO of A$AP Worldwide. But as you can see, when I'm with them, everybody's equal. We don't really base our…

— ASAP Rocky

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and…

— Anonymous

I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I'm a good team player, but I'm…

— Steve Largent

The best way to deal in a transparent world is just be transparent. Let your life be authentic and let people look…

— Michael Hyatt

Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a…

— Tony Judt

I'm not like most artists or most CEOs - I'm a CEO first, then an artist.

— Young Dolph

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

— Leah D. Daughtry

As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses.

— Jennifer Hyman

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

— Andy Grove

You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

— Ivan Glasenberg

Yahoo is a great company, and anyone should be proud to be CEO.

— Brad Garlinghouse

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

— Amit Kalantri

Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback.

— Scott Weiss

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

— David Letterman

CEO was not the right role for me when I was in my early twenties.

— Ben Francis

I'm not going out there screaming, 'I'm CEO! I'm CEO!' That's not the way to do it.

— Payal Kadakia

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Fred Wilson

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

— Denise Morrison

If the CEO is not going to give you a fair chance, you're probably not going to win.

— Marshall Goldsmith

When you take away all the people whose shoulders a CEO stands on, the CEO is just a person.

— Howard Lutnick