Ceos Quotes · Page 2

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

— Lois Wyse

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

— Mark Pincus

I know CEOs, and they get sick when they have to lay people off, especially around Christmas.

— Mark Goulston

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

— Bernie Sanders

I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.

— Hillary Clinton

CEOs who boldly lean into fulfilling the dual mandate of earning profits and providing societal benefits will find a receptive public.

— Richard Edelman

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

— Joyce Meyer

Two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia.

— Steve Bannon

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

— Tim Cook

“Unlike in the United States, there are no rock-star CEOs with nine-figure stock option payouts in Korea.”

— Daniel Tudor

I think that's the responsibility of the CEO and the CEOs below me: to make sure that we're constantly putting people in…

— Bobby Kotick

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that…

— James Green Somerville

CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I'm a chief product officer when my product is a community,…

— Brian Chesky

When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20…

— Scott Weiss

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

— Nicholas Kristof

I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that…

— J. B. Pritzker

They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody…

— Joe Grant

Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs…

— Pierre Nanterme

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

— Gene Simmons

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably…

— Michael Ramsey

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

— Geena Davis

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

— Chip Heath

'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about…

— Andrew Mason

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be…

— Jerry Greenfield

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

— Michael J. Saylor

I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their…

— Patrick Lencioni

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.

— Edward Zander

The days of CEOs getting rich while shareholders lose has got to end. Management must be accountable.

— John Paulson

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the…

— Hal Sparks

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

— Amit Kalantri

CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created…

— Lewis Schiff

“I’ve read that many major CEOs and assorted other captains of industry are sociopaths,” she replied, almost conversationally. “I imagine you fit…

— Caitlin Crews

“Algorithms can’t account for the introduction of new qualitative variables, such as hardheaded CEOs,”

— Amy Webb

“Boards can get around the problems associated with hiring outside CEOs by adopting robust succession planning.”

— Richard L. Hughes Robert C. Ginnett Gordy J. Curphy

“I've known CEOs I wouldn't let borrow a pencil who thought their lives were beacons of integrity.”

— Gary Weiss

“Sundar Pichai's ability to foster rapid innovation while maintaining such a sense of calm is truly remarkable”

— Daniel Vincent Kramer

Diversity, I think, has become a real business imperative at the very top with CEOs who are facing massive disruption.

— Julie Sweet

I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing happening with more and more CEOs stepping up, saying, 'I have to fight carbon emissions.'

— Laurie David

CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their…

— Dan Maffei