Ceos Quotes · Page 2

“commonly held, and imagines corporate CEOs”

— Naomi Klein

I want little girls to believe that they can be CEOs.

— Payal Kadakia

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

— John Paulson

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

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

— Michael J. Saylor

CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.

— Dan Jenkins

CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at…

— Simon Mainwaring

I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

When I dine with CEOs at Michael's in New York or Spago in L.A., we score the best tables. On my own,…

— Christina Binkley

CEOs are also chief capital allocators. This is a point Warren Buffett has repeatedly made: that the role management plays in allocating…

— Kelly Evans

CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today,…

— Marcus Buckingham

Most of the drug CEOs I know, they're not themselves - they're what people want them to be. It's pretty obvious of…

— Martin Shkreli

I was with top CEOs in 2009, and they were clearly shaken. Top leaders of Wall Street and elsewhere, shaken. The ones…

— Shiv Nadar

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big…

— Douglas Conant

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies…

— Jared Diamond

“Contrary to the Harvard Business School model of vocal leadership, the ranks of effective CEOs turn out to be filled with introverts,…

— Susan Cain

You see it with soccer players, you see it with CEOs - people with positions of power - they retire and they're…

— Morten Andersen

“One of the reasons why CEOs fail is an inability to execute, and this is also one of the reasons why first-line…

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

CEOs will struggle to keep themselves and their companies current, relevant, and ahead of the curve.

— Nick Morgan

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

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

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

— Julie Sweet

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

— Tim Cook

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

— Gene Simmons

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

— Daniel Tudor

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

— Steve Bannon

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

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Richard Edelman

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Mark Goulston

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

I've always been of the view that two-term presidency rule is a pretty good one and CEOs shouldn't overstay their welcome.

— Dido Harding

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

— Carl Icahn

Limos are fine for prime ministers or presidents who need the security, but there's no need for CEOs or executives to have…

— Richard Quest

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

— Ben Horowitz

In my line of work, I frequently communicate with CEOs and their executive assistants, and nowhere is the need for gratitude more…

— Mark Goulston

The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work…

— Hans Rosling

Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

— Yishan Wong

I mentor a lot of CEOs and entrepreneurs, and when I see that product is the number-one thing, the only thing that…

— Marc Benioff