Chief executives Quote by Duff McDonald Download Open image “Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.” — Duff McDonald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chief executives Chiefs Consultants Executives Giving Should Strategy
Nobody should get fired because of who they are, or who they love. — Gretchen Whitmer Copy Share Image
CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios. — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired. — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired. — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board,… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion,… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in… — Duff McDonald Copy Share Image
The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the… — Duff McDonald Copy Share Image
[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that office. Democrats… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly they… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey Copy Share Image
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a… — Philip Arthur Fisher Copy Share Image
There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people to whose service the official oath consecrates the… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding. — William Weld Copy Share
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