Long vacation Quote by Ryan Holiday

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours…

— Noam Chomsky

“It is best to be the CEO; it is satisfactory to be an early employee, maybe the fifth or sixth or perhaps the tenth.…

— Ellen Ullman

“What programmer didn’t live with a deadline over his head?”

— B.V. Larson

“The best CEOs I know all look for disruptions, interruptions, little risks, and existential risks and spend time mitigating them periodically. It’s not sexy…

— Sebastian Marshall

“one of the perks of being co-CEO is working the hours of a schoolchild and delegating everything”

— Sally Thorne

As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time -…

— Eliyahu Goldratt

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find…

— Eric Allman

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

— Bobby Kotick

For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great…

— Kathryn Minshew

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people…

— Lisa Su

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

— Douglas McIlroy

“Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn…

— Len Deighton