Ceo Quotes - Page 11

• The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Community, Church, Shepherds

  Dillon Burroughs (2011). “Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers”, p.97, Harvest House Publishers

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• Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, Hierarchy, Faces

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• I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

  Dave Chappelle

  Comedian, Fourteen

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• No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.

  Drew Houston

  Business, Zuckerberg, Creating

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• Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.

  Bing Gordon

  Jobs, Company, Persons

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• Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

  James Buchan

  Distance, Grief, Eye

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• Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Bingo, Gob

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• I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Safety, Risk

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• Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

  Anil Dash

  Use, Privacy, Social Network

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2010

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• We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

  Bill McKibben

  Math, Fuel, Fossils

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• In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Believe, Mean

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• The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

  James C. Collins

  Success, Leadership, Humility

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• I think the greatest CEOs in the United States business anyway are the ones you don't hear too much about.

  Edward Zander

  Thinking, United States, Too Much

  "Edward Zander, Chairman and CEO of Motorola". Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2006.

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• CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Corporations, Workers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Class, Needs

  "Sanders seeking to ban Wall Street CEOs from regional Fed boards" by Alexander Bolton, thehill.com. January 9, 2013.

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• The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position.

  Rick Santorum

  Law, Trying, President

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• I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  "My other interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt" by Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 09, 2007.

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• Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

  Eric Schmidt

  Apples, President, Vices

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• For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in a chat room on the Internet. Brands are sponges for content, for images, for fleeting feelings. They become psychological concepts held in the minds of the public, where they may stay forever. As such you can’t entirely control a brand. At best you can only guide and influence it.

  Scott Bedbury

  Forever, Feelings, Mind

  Scott Bedbury, Stephen Fenichell (2003). “A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Century”, p.39, Penguin

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• There’s no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

  Rick Scott

  Mistake, Taken, Responsibility

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• In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.

  Robert Rubin

  Want, Management, Moments

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• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  Indra Nooyi

  Responsibility, Cake, Worry

  "No Fear of Failure: Real Stories of How Leaders Deal With Risk and Change". Book by Gary Burnison, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

  David A. Siegel

  Running, United States, Needs

  "Why David Siegel Told His Employees to Vote for Romney". Interview with Susan Berfield, www.bloomberg.com. October 11, 2012.

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• When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

  Gary Hamel

  Promise, Politician, Break

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• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  Gary Hamel

  Real, Decision, Rebel

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