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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
“It seems some CEOs who pay extremely large acquisition premiums … come to believe their own press.” — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Things were different in the past. People idolized thinkers, philosophers, artists and scientists. Today the world admires CEOs, businessmen and managers. Basically,… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs… — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the… — Aubrey McClendon Copy Share Image
I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most of these people wanted very much… — Henry Silverman Copy Share Image
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
CEOs need to say, 'We're going to make sure this is a great environment for all types of people.' I was a… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Yes, CEOs are under pressure from all sides, and executives have all sorts of people pushing and pulling at them. But too… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
CEOs must go beyond working with policy-makers on new regulatory frameworks. They must also commit to the principle that success cannot be… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
“[Barbara Kellerman] says if you want good company leaders, one of the worst things you can do is tolerate bad ones. Because… — Curt Nickisch Copy Share Image
The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means… — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody… — Joe Grant Copy Share Image
CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,'… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
The Covid-19 pandemic has been great for the bosses, by which I mean the CEOs, the senior lawyers, the bankers and the… — Touker Suleyman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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