Ceo famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
-- Andrea Jung -
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
-- Angela Ahrendts -
Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?
-- Angela Braly -
The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
-- Bernie Sanders -
Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.
-- Bing Gordon -
Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.
-- Bing Gordon -
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
-- Carly Fiorina -
When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.
-- Corey Haim -
I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.
-- Dave Chappelle -
Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.
-- David Letterman -
Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has apparently just slipped across the border into Pakistan.
-- David Letterman -
If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.
-- Daymond John -
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
-- Fred Wilson -
The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.
-- Hillary Clinton -
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.
-- Mark McKinnon -
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.
-- Mark Pincus -
It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.
-- Martha Stewart -
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
-- Michael Porter -
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
-- Paul Allen -
Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.
-- Sandy Carter -
I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.
-- Scott Pruett -
If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.
-- Sherwin Wine -
When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'.
-- Sourav Ganguly -
My agility is the CEO of the United Global Agility Corporation
-- Steve Nash -
Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.
-- Tim Brady -
I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.
-- Tim Cook -
Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!
-- Tony Gaskins -
If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even
-- Gwyn Morgan -
I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.
-- Jack Levin -
American managers often say they would like to pay their employees more, they argue that they can't afford to do so and, at the same time, keep the prices of their products competitive. As one CEO recently explained, "I would treat my employees as well as Starbuck's treats theirs, if I could charge the equivalent for my product of three dollars for a cup of latte!"
-- James O'Toole -
Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer - who started with the company while in high school has negotiated imaginative contracts with the unions representing Harley's workers, agreeing to keep production in the U.S. in exchange for constantly reducing total labor costs through automating tasks and changing work rules. Because Harley regularly reassigns workers whose tasks have been automated to other parts of the company.
-- James O'Toole -
My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.
-- John Fairclough -
It is all of our jobs to make sure that women's rights are human rights, and that they do have a place at the table, and we all push toward equality. The leadership numbers for women in business really haven't changed since I began as CEO. There are only 21 female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies, there is only 17 to 19 percent of female representatives in Congress, there are only eight female governors.
-- Julie Smolyansky -
It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.
-- Leah D. Daughtry -
Asset management CEOs globally are looking at their business models. They're looking at costs, they're looking at making their businesses more efficient, because they're seeing revenues under pressure all over the world.
-- Martin Gilbert -
You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs.
-- Michael Ellsberg -
I have worked with leaders for 17 years. But I'm also a leader myself, and I can honestly say I feel deeply the privilege and responsibility that come with being a CEO. It is incumbent upon us to become all we can be, not only for ourselves, but for our companies.
-- Suzanne Bates -
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
-- John G. Stumpf
