Executives Quote by David Riesman

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have…

— John Milius

If you can help an employee get to that extra level of skill, you have a great executive.

— James L. Dolan

What I've realized is most leaders cannot reinvent themselves at the CEO level or at the operational level.

— John T. Chambers

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

— Peter Senge

Leadership is hard to train on.

— Ben Horowitz

People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

— Guy Browning

Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential.

— Marty Nemko

Very little attention is paid to improving the decision-making skills of both individual executives and the organizational benchstrength as a whole. Often we find…

— Justin Menkes

I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that…

— Jeff Bezos

Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties…

— Anonymous

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people…

— Anonymous